((XINT: Outside ramshackle ranch house somewhere in central Wyoming. ALMA is taking clothes off the line, since a blustery wind has come up. She looks right, where we see a beat-up old black pickup with two horses, coming down the road, swathed in a halo of wind, dust, and water.))
ALMA:
**Confound it! I just get the clothes up on the line and this wind comes up like to blow ‘em all away! An this is Ennis’s only other shirt, he’ll be on my tail if I lose it! Course he’ll be on my tail anyway, he always is when windy weather comes up. Only good thing about it is I don’t have to worry about makin any more babies that way!!**
YOUNG ENNIS:
(( Ennis returns home to the old ranch after another gruelling day of work. He brings the horses to the barn and heads into the house.))
Hey honey, how's it goin?(( He gives his wife a light kiss on the cheek and wonders what in the hell happened to her. No make-up, wearing a housedress, looking tired all the time.))
%% I know she ain't no bathin' beauty, but she kin make it so's I at least have somethin' ta look at. Jes' because a two kids, and warshing clothes and makin' dinner and cleaning house don't mean she's got ta let herself go. Jack always looked good and smelt good whenever I came back down ta camp.
Oh, now the girls are cryin' and she'll probably want me ta help.%%
(( Ennis heads off into the girl's room to see what all the screamin' is about.))