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-8- 13. CONTINUED 13. Sounder scampers away around the side of the house. REBECCA I bet you could use a hot cup of coffee, Nathan Lee. NATHAN LEE I shore could, Miss Rebecca. They start back into the house. 14. EXT. FRONT OF THE HOUSE - NIGHT 14. Sounder crawls just under the front porch and lies down on a burlap sack for his night's sleep. 15. INT. THE CHILDREN'S ROOM - NIGHT 14. David Lee has taken some of the walnuts ans is sitting up in the bed. EARL and JOSIE MAE, their sister, is fast asleep across from them. Earl is a sprite little boy about eight years of age who has the kind of round face that gives one the impression that he is forever smiling. David Le grabs his book and starts to read --- 16. INT. KITCHEN-SITTING ROOM - NIGHT 16. Nathan and Rebecca enter the house through the back door - Nathan stops at the table in the kitchen area as Rebecca moves directly to the doorway of the children's room - just before she gets to the door, she notices that the bowl of walnuts on the floor by the rocker has been disturbed - she snatches the bowls up from the floor and looks to Nathan --- REBECCA The boy done went into my walnuts! I skin my fingers to the bone to pick two pounds that's worth almost nothin' at the commissary and he done took almost half of what I pick! NATHAN LEE The boy is hungry, Rebecca. His words cut through her frustration - she puts down the bowl on an old dresser next to the door that leads to the children's room and just stands there for a moment - she and Nathan, looking directly on each other - after a moment she moves across the floor and nestles into the embrace of his arms - he holds her close to him for a moment and then they break the embrace --- CONTINUED
