Smoothly Persuasive
- Elaine confronts Ben at his apartment. He admits he loves her and is in Berkeley because of her. She asks him to leave town.
- Elaine says that Mrs. Robinson told her that Benjamin raped her after driving her home from a bar where she got drunk. He says that's a total lie.
- He starts to explain what really happened, with Mrs. Robinson stripping down in front of him—but Elaine screams.
- This draws the attention of the landlord and a bunch of (male) tenants (everyone in the rooming house is male). They want to call the cops, but Ben shows them that Elaine is OK and is having a glass of water after being upset about something.
- (Recognize a 20 year-old Richard Dreyfuss in that bunch?)
- When the other tenants leave, McCleery tells Ben he doesn't like him and wants him out.
- Back in the room, Elaine tells him she doesn't want him to leave until he has a definite plan (sort of contradicting what she said earlier). She leaves.
- Later, Elaine comes back to the house, and asks Ben to kiss her. He does. Then he asks her to marry him. She says she might marry him, but she's confused about what's happening.
- Ben follows Elaine around campus, bugging her about marrying him. She says she doesn't think it'll work.
- To Ben's shock, she admits that she promised Carl Smith that she'd marry him, too.
- He continues to follow her around, needling her about the lame way Carl proposed marriage.