rose is washing the dishes while the children finish breakfast. buddy looks up from this cornflakes with a slightly sly expression.
cut to a shot of buddy in the window of the kitchen. he is propped on his elbows and listening with keen interest to the talk on the patio. we hear the voices of his parents over the shot.
cut to a shot of buddy and doll and waski in the kitchen. doll and waski are playing parchesi on the kitchen table. buddy turns from eavesdropping at the window and strolls across the kitchen, hands in his khaki pants.
on buddy, as he comes back into the kitchen sadly shaking his head.
a shot of a coolly angry mother in the kitchen. it is late morning. as she talks the camera pulls back to show a sheepish buddy standing "on the carpet before her. the other children, doll and waski, are seated at the kitchen table having hamburgers for lunch. they are happily smiling with schadenfreude amusement at their brother's discomfiture.
cut to a shot of rose washing dishes in the kitchen. as usual, she is in a cheerful good humor. we see buddy at the kitchen table building a model airplane. mother comes into the shot, worried, frowning.
cut to a shot of mother talking on a phone.
cut to a shot of buddy and rose in the kitchen.
a shot of mother and rose and the children in the kitchen. we see a sewing machine and evidences of dressmaking. rose has on a new and modest little dress that mother evidently has made for her.
a shot of daddy, mother and rose at the kitchen table drinking coffee in the early morning. daddy looks grave, mother looks sad, and rose is crying into a handkerchief.
cut to a shot of the kitchen on mother and rose. mother is helping a rather wan rose prepare dinner. enter daddy.
a shot of daddy sitting with mother at the kitchen table.
he looks around. no one is there. he glances at a modern refrigerator that is in pretty poor shape, glances with a frown at dishes in the sink unwashed. he goes on out to the patio.
cut to a shot of willcox hillyer and daddy as they enter the kitchen. the former opens his travel bag and takes out a bottle of teacher's.