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Ed introduces his wife, Gertie,
to his sister, Nora, who has just arrived in the Canadian northwest
from England. |
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"Can't you do anything?
You've wasted enough rice for fifty men!" |
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Nora is appalled at Frank's
jokes about marriage at the table, although everyone else, including
her brother and the workers find the comments amusing. |
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Gertie demands that Nora apologize
for disrespectful comments she made to her at the dinner table,
and insists that she do so in front of all of the men. |
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The humiliation leads Nora
to ask a surprising question of Frank. "You said you needed
a wife to cook and clean and sew for you. Will I do?" |
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After weeks of living together,
no contact and barely speaking to one another, Frank forcefully
kisses Nora causing her to grab a gun from the wall and threaten
to shoot him. |
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Frank finally has enough
of the resistance, breaks in the bedroom door and "takes"
his wife. |
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Nora slips away the next
day on foot, but doesn't get far. She's tired, injures her ankle
and faints on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.
Frank finds her and brings her back. When she awakes, he loads
the rifle (which wasn't loaded when she had previously threatened
to shoot him), brings it in the bedroom and tells her, "It's
loaded now." |
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Nora receives her inheritance
of 500 pounds from her aunt's estate. Frank figures she will
now return to England since she has the money to do so. |
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Frank reluctantly tells her,
"That check will pay your passage - and then some."
And then getting the marriage certificate from a drawer, he hands
it go her. "You'll need the marriage certificate to get
your divorce." "You want me to go?" she asks.
He tells her, "You'll be happier there." |
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