down the stairs, THIBAULT trips on the broken step and loses his cap.
TOM
(from below) Watch the step!
THIBAULT
Hey, that was a close one. Very close, that one.
THIBAULT exits on his bike.
PAQUETTE
(on his balcony) Cécile, est-ce que Diane veut un lift pour aller à l’école?
CÉCILE
(at the screen door) Diane?
DIANE
(from inside the house) Non.
PAQUETTE
Pourquoi faire?
DIANE
Parce que j’aime pas la manière qu’y chauffe son char.
CÉCILE
Elle a dit que …
PAQUETTE
J’suis pas sourd. Qu’elle s’arrange pas pour manquer ses cours, c’est moi qui les paye cet été.
DIANE
Inquiète-toi pas avec ça.
JOHNNY comes out on his balcony.
PAQUETTE
(to JOHNNY) Hey, people gotta sleep at night, eh?
JOHNNY
You talking to me?
PAQUETTE
(pointing to the wall) No, him. Hostie.
CÉCILE
Claude, j’pense que ce soir, je vais te faire des bonnes tourtières. Tu sais celles que t’aimes, celles du Lac Saint-Jean.
PAQUETTE
Encore des tourtières.
CÉCILE
Claude, t’aimes ça des tourtières.
PAQUETTE
Oui, j’aime ça des tourtières, mais pas tous les jours.
DIANE
(from inside the house) Maman, où sont mes souliers … mes talons hauts?
CÉCILE
J’n’sais pas. Où est-ce que tu les as mis hier soir?
She disappears into the house.
PAQUETTE
Cécile, j’m’en vas.
JOHNNY
Watch the step!
PAQUETTE
(coming down the stairs) C’est qui a encore laissé les vidanges en dessous des escaliers?
TOM
(from below) Not me.
PAQUETTE
It’s me who got the trouble with the landlord, eh?
CÉCILE comes running out on the balcony with PAQUETTE’s lunch bucket.
CÉCILE
Claude, Claude … T’as oublié ton lunch.
PAQUETTE
C’est l’affaire de Thibault … Pitch moi-la.
CÉCILE tosses him his lunch.
JOHNNY
Baloney sandwiches again, eh, Porky?
PAQUETTE exits. IRENE comes out on her balcony to take the underwear off the clothesline.
JOHNNY
What time is it, Irene?
IRENE
(looking at him) You look a wreck.
JOHNNY
You don’t look so hot yourself.
IRENE
You’re beginning to look like a boozer. Ya know that?
JOHNNY
Hey, all I want is the time.
DIANE comes out on the balcony carrying her school books.
DIANE
J’perds mon temps avec ce maudit cours stupide, surtout l’été.
CÉCILE
Diane, est-ce que tu vas venir souper?
DIANE
Peut-être.
CÉCILE goes back into her house. DIANE comes down the stairs. She is wearing shorts and high heels. JOHNNY and TOM both look at her.
JOHNNY
Hey, Diane, ya look like a flamingo in those things.
DIANE makes a face at him and exits down the lane.
IRENE
You like that, eh?
JOHNNY
Just looking.
IRENE
Well, no more meat and potatoes for you.
JOHNNY
Eh?
IRENE
You know what I mean.
JOHNNY
What?
IRENE goes back into the house.
JOHNNY
Fuck!
TOM
She’s mad, eh?
JOHNNY
Ya ask her for the time and she tells you how to make a watch.
