Then, all their children take places on the porch and look out - their two daughters (Ethan's nieces): eenaged, full-skirted Lucy (Pippa Scott) and young 10 year old Debbie (Lana Wood, younger sister of co-star Natalie Wood) with the family dog, and their teenaged son Ben (Robert Lyden) who carries wood.While dressing upstairs the evening of the party, Esther confides o Rose:Esther: I'm going to let John Truett kiss me tonight.At dawn, he sprinted beneath an overhead train, made another run through the City of Brotherly Love's streets and marketplaces, punched a bag, did one-armed pushups, took punches to his mid-section, executed endless situps, pounded more slabs of beef, and sprinted along the city's waterway...I've seen guys like you go under before, guys that never had a worry.Then hey got ahold of some dough and went goofy." In a marvelous monologue, he has a term for people who are corrupted by wealth - they're heels or "heelots.He narrated how the two conservative, "ordinary" and "healthy" kids were about to leave the safe environs of respectable society and risk their lives by driving in the wrong direction towards he turbulent storm clouds of their fateful future:It seemed a fairly ordinary night when Brad Majors and his fiancee Janet Weiss, two young,ordinary healthykids, left Denton that late November evening to visit a Doctor Everett Scott, ex-tutor and now friend to both of them.