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An excellent article, don't you think so?

Yes, excellent.

But then I inspired it, you see.

You did?

Yes. I was saying to Mr. Flaygate only the other day that it was a shame how

all our moral standards are being lowered.

Look at this bitch.

Oh, don't. Come on.

Here, where are you going?

I'm going up and taking a shower. Why don't you sit down here?

It's Mrs. Lee.

Marjorie?

Marjorie Lee?

Give her a

chance. Just give the woman air.

Marjorie, darling.

Marjorie, darling.

Don't worry about her, dear. She'll be

all right.

I got the water out of her, lady.

She's coming out okay. She'll be all right.

Marjorie, darling. Don't you know me?

Marjorie, my dear.

She has no sense of obligation.

Well, I suppose one of us should notify her husband.

He's in the city.

He's on the same board with Hamilton. They're involved in a big deal of some

kind. She'll probably phone him as soon as she gets well enough.

Does it matter to date enough in your office, Bob?

Oh, yes, except for this one paragraph, and that we've already agreed.

Now, gentlemen, you have heard the minutes, and you know that the

representatives of the other banks are of the same mind as ourselves.

By this merger, you are taking the largest industrial banks in the Five

Butters and welding them into a single financial institution that in resources

will be second to none.

What about the arrangements, sir? Are they all right?

You mean the legal arrangements? Yes, they most certainly are.

Is it only for your banks, Mr. Lee?

I have conferred with the attorneys of the other banks, and all we have to do

now is to meet once more, stay in a month's time, vote on the proposition,

and elect officers.

I suppose it's settled that you will be president, Hector?

Well, Hamilton, I... We take that for granted, even though we haven't voted on

it as yet.

Besides, with money at 12%, anybody can run a bank.

I'm expected to take my granddaughter to lunch.

Gentlemen?

I feel that... Excuse me, sir. You're wanted on the phone.

Very important, sir.

Oh, very well.

I, uh... I shall only be a moment, gentlemen.

Well, we've had a wonderful break so far.

What do you mean, with the other banks?

Not at all.

Lee being called away before he had a chance to make a speech.

Hector, is that you?

Hello.

Oh, is it you, Margie? Well, say, look here, I'm busy.

Well, I'm sorry, dear. I don't want to bother, but I just want... Don't worry,

Margie. Keep going.

No, that's all right, Margie. That's all right. She never bothers me. Hello,

Hector.

Hector, I wanted to tell you that something happened this afternoon, but I

think it's... Happened? Well, I should say something has happened.

I'm going to be elected president of one of the biggest... Well, I...

very much, dear, but I didn't want you to worry in case somebody told you that

I've been... I'm all worn out. I need a rest.

Oh, but see here, Marja, I can't rest down there where you are. Everybody

knows me.

There'll be congratulations all the time, dinners in my honor.

I'll just run up to my lodge in the mountains. If you don't mind, I'll go

alone. I can always think over my problems best when I'm alone.

All right.

Well, goodbye, and take care of yourself when I return.

Well, I didn't...

Hello, my

darling.

Why did they get in here too much when you got around here? Oh, now, Parker.

Parker, I thought I ought to not say anything about it. The psychological

effects of trying to keep two children things they're bound to hear discussed

by the grown-up is bad, madam.

Come along.

Come along. Let's go over here and have a talk, shall we?

The whole family together.

Now then, want me to tell you all about it?

Yes. Well, Mummy went out this morning to take a swim.

She was swimming along having a beautiful time.

When suddenly she looked beside her and there was the greatest, blackest man you

ever saw.

Well, Mummy began to laugh. She laughed and she laughed and she laughed and a

great big green wave came along.

And what do you think happened?

What?

Mummy went right down underneath the waves and swallowed a lot of water.

Did you drink all that water, Mummy?

No, darling, Mummy didn't drink all that water. But she began to scream.

And she screamed like a pig.

She screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed until along came a great

big man and pulled Mummy to shore.

Then he took her up by the toe like that.

What do you think happened?

What? Well, all the water came tumbling out.

Then he put up like that again, and she came right straight home to you.

Oh, Bertha, darling, you don't think, you don't think Mother'd ever let

herself get drowned or have anything happen to her that would take her away

from you, do you?

Listen, Zora.

Well, you are dumb, aren't you?

But you gotta look at that dame's face when she woke up and got a flash of you.

Say, you know, she did look kind of funny.

Yeah, and the chambermaid at the hotel said she couldn't stop talking about

him. Kept on saying, he's so strong.

I took a job down here this summer to try and cop a millionaire's daughter.

He copped a millionaire's wife, and still he don't know what to do with her.

No, she's crazy about you, Dougan. He wants to see you.

What room is this Mrs. Lee in?

I'm a reporter from the picture press sent down here to cover that story of

the lifeguard and Mrs. Lee.

My dear fellow, Southampton neither wishes nor desires publicity.

Hey, didn't you used to be the bouncer at the Martha Washington Hotel?

No, no, it's all right. It must have been two other fellows.

Now listen, why don't you give me a break on this thing?

I was surprised.

I couldn't see.

Well, beautiful, here I am.

Who are you?

You don't recognize me with this on.

You're the lifeguard.

And lucky for you, I was.

I came in through the fire escape.

Oh, nobody saw me.

You know, I... I kind of thought you might want to... want to see me again.

You're drunk.

Beautiful, I've been drunk.

Ever since I felt you in my arms.

No, no, no, listen.

I'm not feeling exactly conversational after nearly drowning a few hours ago.

Oh, please, please go.

When you go out...

Will you please, please be quiet? There's a baby in the other room.

The baby in here is the only one I watch.

Get out!

Hey, listen.

You don't recognize me yet.

Now you get out, or I'll call me out.

Mr. Ross, it's too bad that this woman can't get into the room for the men

there. Well, well, well, tell me, what's the trouble? What's the trouble? Well,

please come in and see.

Why don't you listen to the reason?

Once women find out what good-looking lifeguards you've got here, every one of

them will want to use this hotel to drown from. But I told you once,

Southampton... Neither wishes nor desires publicity.

Why don't you give me a break on this thing?

Will you please go? Can't you see I'm busy?

Mr. Levin.

What? There was a man in 317.

317?

Why, you must be mad. That's Mrs. Hector Lee's room. And there's some childer in

the next room.

Yes, sir. It is Mrs. Lee's room. And the man is the seller who saved her life

this morning.

Well, and the house detective put him out and told Mrs. Lee she had to go too.

He told Mrs. Lee to go?

Yes, sir. Oh.

Anybody got a nickel?

Hey, he told me... Here, just a moment, just a moment. Where are you going?

Don't worry, it's all right. I'll see you in the morning papers.

Now, what have you done? What have you done?

Do you think I've got all night?

Well, wait a minute now. What story are you on?

Well, you know the Southampton case that sent me on?

Yes.

Well, boy, I think I've stuck paid her.

Eddie.

What?

Mrs. Hector.

Baby in bed in the joining room?

Wow. Eddie.

Hey, give this to McGuire. McGuire, take this from Allen.

Mrs. Hector leaped out in bedroom with life, so I kicked out of exclusive

Southampton. Eddie, get out a picture of Mrs. Hector Lee. Take a composite layout

and place one of her in bed, a hotel bed. Some husky in a lifeguard suit on

the bed. But keep his back turned. We don't know what he looks like.

And put her baby in bed in the joining room.

What is it, boy or girl? What's the difference?

Thank you.

No woman can do this to me.

What can't I do to you, darling? That's all right. It isn't useful.

Is some other woman doing something to you?

My wife.

Oh.

Look.

What?

Mother.

All she had to do was keep my house pure, and she doesn't even do that.

With a lifeguard.

A lifeguard.

Oh, Hector.

Did you ever hear of such a thing? Oh, you poor darling.

You know, Hector, I always think the best thing to do in a case like this is

to get a divorce.

Divorce?

You're right.

Certainly. A divorce would at least be a stand for decency.

Well, I'm sure you're right, Hector.

I've got to see Daniel Farmer. Yes, yes.

What do you suppose

the public think? Why, I'll be the laughing stock of the business world.

You won't be the first man in the business world to be made a laughing

stock by some woman.

Well, it's a shame that such things happen. My daughter did. Well, if you

feel that way, why do you refuse to take my case?

I'm not a divorce lawyer, Lee. But you are my lawyer.

Yes, of your business affairs, not your domestic affairs. But this will affect

my business affairs.

Your affairs.

My dear fellow, it will affect the affairs of everybody connected to this

merger.

A moment this scandal of your wife broke into print, I heard from every member of

your board.

You heard? Don't you understand?

That if the public believes a man can't manage his domestic affairs, they'll

think he can't manage his business affairs either.

It therefore becomes of great importance to all of us. But they will think that

unless we do something about it. Yes, well, I helped bring about the murder.

Men on the board had confidence in me.

Lee, you're sure in your own mind that your wife is guilty of this misconduct?

What else can I believe?

Yes, I am sure.

All right.

But just one other thing.

Is there anything in your married life

that might be used by the defense as a counter charge.

Why, certainly not, sir.

Very well.

I've never handled a divorce case before.

But I'll handle this one. Oh, thanks, Dan. I knew I could depend upon you.

Why, you have done me a difference.

Has the defendant produced any evidence in her own defense?

Any evidence you can believe?

She had a bathing mishap.

I will let you judge whether it was a real mishap or a pretended one.

She herself admits she became conscious, saw the lifeguard, and

laughed.

When a woman is in danger of her life, she does not laugh.

I ask you to look at her now. At this moment, and with her reputation at

stake, she is laughing.

Members of the jury, this woman's laugh is an index to her character.

She laughs.

while her husband struggled to attain position, laughed at his efforts to gain

respect, laughed, as she did just now, at the morals of respectable people.

You have heard the nurse's testimony.

She had been allowed to leave the apartment, and I need not tell you why.

The child, too young to understand the exact nature of what was happening,

but nevertheless impressionable, remained in the next room.

Members of the jury, is this little child to remain in the

next room for the rest of her life?

Is she to be left under the influence of such a woman as this, a victim of her

evil habits of life?

I ask you to give this little child a chance to grow up decently and with a

proper regard for those virtues at which our mother loves.

I ask for the custody of the child.

Three, two, three, open.

Hello, Chief?

This is Al.

There's nothing to it.

You can get the story ready that the broken-hearted mother cried out in

anguish, but the father is sure to get the child.

And baby, what that boy Daniel Farr told the jury will be remembered by every

mother with a guilty conscience who's had him there.

No, no, the jury hasn't even gone out yet.

But you can set up an extra.

He's sure to get the child.

It's a cinch. I'll give you a flash on it.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

Now, how is that?

Now, that's all right, Annie. Now, you come and sit down there. Come on. Thank

you. Hurry up and read it. Yes, but read it to me. Hurry up.

Boss attacked a Mr.

Sleep, alleged infidelity was horrific.

Poor Marjorie.

Annie, tell me, who gets the child?

Mr. Lee.

Mr. Lee. Now, that's enough on the back, a little bit on the stomach.

Well, Nova, come on.

Flo, do you think, I mean, is it just the right thing you're coming here so

soon after the divorce?

The right thing?

Well, if I don't belong here, dear, who does?

And just now, when you need a woman's loving care.

There's only one thing to do with Marjorie Lee.

Cut her.

It may be old-fashioned, but it's what we stand for.

Marjorie, my poor dear, what an experience.

If you knew how I... Please, Cynthia, no sympathy, if you don't mind.

I have gone quite bad.

But darling, if you knew how I feel.

Oh, I do know.

As one of my best friends, you're heartbroken.

You didn't believe a word they said about me in court. You think Hector is a

vile creature.

He brought me every newspaper in town.

for reading matter in my lonely moments. Well, I just thought, darling, if you'd

nothing else to do... Well, I've got a great deal to do, Cynthia.

In the first place, I must discover some way of finding out how Barbara's getting

along.

And then, too, I'm very busy with regrets.

Regrets? From people who've invited me places and find they can't have me.

Take this one. Mrs. Collip is indisposed and must postpone her dinner for

tonight. Here's another dinner for tomorrow night being postponed.

Just to me, darling, as if I'm going to be responsible for lots of people

starving to death.

Well, I must say, you take it all pretty well. What can I do?

Just seems funny, just the same.

Being able to go along as if nothing had happened.

What is it, Rose? Another telegram. Well, well, well, well. This is getting

more like a funeral every moment.

Only difference is, in this case, everyone is consoling the corpse.

I think I'm strolling about this one.

From Mr. Clinton DeWitt, Secretary of the Borough Charities.

He asks for my resignation.

Well, what is this, Rose? Those reporters are still downstairs.

Oh!

Well, you tell them they won't find out anything about me to ask Mr. Daniel

Farr.

Marjorie, how can you have the courage to do a thing like that?

Daniel Farr?

After the things he said about you? Well, it's just a poem.

He said so many things about me, there's nothing left for him to say. Well, it

seemed almost to me like a personal attack.

I wonder how he'd like being crucified in that paper the way I was.

Well, darling, there's one thing sure.

I'm going to give Mr. Daniel Farr a piece of my mind.

I don't believe a word of the story.

Certainly not with a common lifesaver.

And I'm going to tell him so when we meet on Saturday.

Are you going to meet on Saturday?

Oh, why, yes.

Yes, of course.

He's spending the weekend with the Playgates, and they're giving a dance at

their house Saturday night.

What is it, Rose?

What am I to do with those reporters, ma'am? They simply won't go. Oh, tell

them I won't see them. I don't want to see anybody.

Cynthia, Cynthia, be a dear and go downstairs and see those reporters.

Well, I have to. Tell them to go away. I'll do my best.

Oh, please.

Oh, you are an angel, Cynthia.

Hello,

Mrs. Hector Lee is calling Mr. Plagate.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello, is that you, Bunny?

Yes, yes, Marjorie.

Hello, Marjorie, dear.

Bunny, I'm terribly anxious to see you.

You and dear Caroline.

I suppose you've got a spare room over the weekend, have you?

Why, of course we have.

You come right after here.

Inconvenient, sir.

Not a bit of it.

You'll come.

Good.

Thanks so much, dear.

Bye-bye.

Practically everyone I've invited to the dance has accepted it. Oh, that's

brilliant. I suppose there'll be more men than women.

That's the usual thing.

Of course it is.

That's why I knew that I should be quite right in asking just one woman more.

Who? Marjorie Lee.

Marjorie Lee? Yes, you see, she fell.

And I told her.

come for the weekend you told her to come for the weekend yes that is exactly

what i did you must be mad what because a lot of evil

-minded old rabbits about here choose to believe a ridiculous story they do

believe it that's the point oh good heavens that's not the worst of it you

forget that you invited daniel farr no i do not forget that i

invited daniel But what have they got to do with it?

You are such a foolish question.

If those two meet, there'll be an explosion.

What? I don't think there is an explosion.

You'd leave like a novelty at your party, wouldn't you?

Novelty, a meeting between those two.

Not while I have the strength to prevent it.

Henderson. What are you going to do? The only thing I can do.

Prevent us from coming. You'll do nothing of the cost. We'll see.

Henderson, look up Mrs. Hector Lee's number in New York and get her on the

phone. Yes, ma'am. Oh.

Oh, Rose.

Yes, Mrs. Lee.

Rose, there's a package in case for me.

You'd better put in some sport clothes and that black evening gown.

And will you want a wrap too, ma'am?

No. Wait, wait, don't.

Don't answer it.

I'm expecting a call from Mrs.

Plagate.

We'll answer no more telephones today.

Don't I go to the office every day of my life?

No, you do not.

Well, if I don't, at least I telephone and ask if everybody's on guard.

Oh, hello, Peter.

What's the matter with you?

You haven't been up by panic.

Now, Dan, you've far as my idea of what a man ought to look like.

You look good, do you? But now that you... His indifference is what I like.

It gives me something to work on.

And that means she's coming? I'm afraid so. Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Clayton?

How are you doing along, Mr. Dewey? There's a cocktail, there's a dining

room.

I've sent my chauffeur down the road, and he stopped three times.

If Marjorie goes by, I'm so nervous.

I've jumped every time somebody comes in the room.

What did you do on the first floor? More.

I thought you'd take more than that for yourself. No, no, no. No, no, Mr. Beluk,

there are six.

There's more like it.

That's not bad, but... This one makes me jump, too.

How a man of your age managed to get out of the rough on the ninth is beyond.

Marriage, my boy, marriage.

Thirty years of married life have taught me to get out of most difficulties.

Very clear. Thanks very much. Mr. Ford, you must be thirsty.

Play him all afternoon, will you?

Oh, thank you. I quenched my thirst in the locker room. Oh, no, you'll have to.

No, you are not.

You're not going to do anything.

Thank you.

Madrigal!

You've come?

Yes. Caroline.

Yes, Caroline.

Yes, Marjorie, my dear. Hello, Caroline.

So glad to have you, Marjorie. Thanks, Caroline.

Marjorie, dear.

I'm sorry I had to postpone our dinner last night. I was so ill. I knew you'd

understand. Oh, I understood perfectly.

So glad you've recovered. You're looking like a blushing rose today.

It is these bags, ma'am. How funny.

Put them in the blue room, Colin.

Yes, ma'am.

I'm putting you in the blue room. How appropriate.

My dear, you know everyone here, don't you? Oh, of course, of course I... I

know everybody.

Yes, I meet Pebble Beach in 83.

83? Oh, that's not bad.

What did you do on the second night?

The second night? I'm talking of the court.

Really?

Well, I'll take you on tomorrow, if you like, and see how good you really are.

Very good. What time shall we set? Any time that we will give you. Nine o

'clock. Really?

I'll mind you there.

I'll be there.

Very good. I'll be there.

How do you do?

How do you do?

You didn't get asked about. How's swimming, Bunny? Fine. Water cold? Fine.

A little cold after breakfast, but fine.

Have your afternoon, eh?

Would you like to take a bite of something?

There are sandwiches and things in the dining room.

Bunny, I'm starved. Come along, show me where they are. Oh, of course I will.

I'm also in good shape.

Caroline, Marjorie had something up her sleeve, my dear.

Mark my words.

Oh, Bunny, I've never seen so much beautiful food.

But it's enough here for ten starving women. Yes, and I know exactly what you

want to go with it. What?

You wait, and I'll shake you a little bit of an appetite. No, no, no, Bunny,

dear, I don't want this.

Bunny knows what you want a great deal better than you do.

Oh, then?

Then look after Mrs. Lee, will you?

There doesn't seem to be any toast.

Well, perhaps you'll find me a biscuit.

A biscuit?

Yes.

On the plate.

Perhaps I'll have a little bit of caviar.

If you don't mind.

Under this.

Now I think just a little of that egg.

On the caviar.

On the caviar.

Thank you very much.

Nothing else?

No, beautiful, but nothing.

Yes.

Are you having anything?

Yes, an olive.

Like olives?

Yes, damn it.

But I had to accustom myself to them.

I hope you'll give me the same chance you gave the olives.

Certainly.

Comfortable.

Where did you leave them?

They're not alone, are they? Yes, my dear, they are alone.

And they're all right.

Now, can you leave this thing to me?

Yes, you are, my dear Lou.

I believe I've surprised myself.

Come on, then, you've got to join us.

There. Oh, Bunny, Bunny, surely Mr. Farr doesn't drink?

Mr. Farr doesn't drink.

Here you go.

Thank you, my darling.

Good luck to you.

Well,

have you seen anything of Stan Paa?

No, nothing.

Well, he's supposed to play bridge with me. I haven't believed an idea.

Well, if you do see him, set him up with me. Yes, my dear. Well, he's an arduous

fool. He's about somewhere.

She can't be very far away. I saw her only about three or four hours ago.

I can't find him so far anywhere.

Well, my dear, when you do find him, tell him I'm waiting for him upstairs to

play great.

I

love

music.

Do you play at all?

Oh, yes. Yes, a little.

I love it too.

I never miss a concert like this.

It's curious the effect the concert has on me. First of all, I'm relaxed, and

then I'm stimulated.

Oh, I didn't know I was interrupting.

I just came out to get some air.

Yes, we found it very stuffy in there, huh? It is, but if you like dancing,

why? Well, I like it, but I've never had a chance to learn.

Hester doesn't dance either.

I always had to make excuses for him.

What a pity, my keeping you all to myself like this.

After all, you are the lion of the evening, you know.

Oh, that's ridiculous.

Why should I be?

Well, lions always tear other people to pieces, don't they?

You keep coming back to that.

I wonder if I could have done it half as well, if I'd known you as I do now.

Really, Papa, you don't know me even now.

I think I do.

You think you do.

Do you have a cigarette?

Oh, no.

May I ask you a question?

Oh, I'm used to your questions, you know.

Well, just one more.

Why didn't you put that knife guard on the stand?

Oh, we wanted to, but he was away.

See, the notoriety was so great, he went out west and right into Oakville.

I never know whether you're joking or not.

Oh, it's quite true.

Now there's something I'll tell you without your asking.

Yes?

You don't know how much you'll attack on me. Help me.

Help you?

I'm off committees.

Luncheons and dinneries.

I'm actually free for the first time in my life.

Of course, I'm fatherless.

Your daughter?

More than you think.

Well, you'll be allowed to see her from time to time.

Yes, I'll be allowed.

I'll tell you one thing, Mr. Farr.

I never dreamed that anyone in the world would believe those outrageous things

that have been said about me before.

Pride kept me from making any sense beyond the fear I belied.

But it would have all been very different if I had realized the legend

about me.

Oh, well.

I suppose we must all rise superior to the misfortunes of life.

I've risen superior to one of them at any rate.

Yes? I don't miss my husband.

Oh.

Well.

Well, if you feel that way about him, how must you feel about me?

Oh, that's quite interesting.

It was your business to defend the sanctity of Hector's home.

Well, now that that little matter has been cleared up, I suppose the great

merger will go through.

Yes, I've every reason to believe you.

Naturally, now, you'll be on board.

Yes, I expect they'll elect me.

Of course you will.

All you have to do is to keep your reputation pure and spotless.

And see to it that a little child is not contaminated by any contact with her

mother. Oh, please.

Oh, I wish I could get you out of this mood.

You can.

How? Dance with me. Now, you heard me tell Miss Dell I'd dance with her. Now,

now, now. There, you see? The first thing I've asked you, and you refuse it.

All right. I'll try.

Now,

I'm very nervous.

Hold on.

Thank you.

Oh! Did I hurt you?

No, no, but I'm afraid I've lost the heel. Oh, I'm so directly clumped. No,

no, I don't mean that. I mean my socket. Oh, it's not my fault. Will you excuse

me? Yes. Hold me a minute.

Excuse me. Could you tell me the name of this number?

Why, search me. Oh, another kiss. Oh, another kiss.

Oh, thank you.

I've never been able to count to any other cute names.

I want to now free-to-free-own.

Yeah.

Hello? Picture Press?

I'd like to speak to one of the editors.

Oh, no, a reporter will do.

Thanks.

Hello?

Hello, I'm speaking from the Playgate house.

At Southampton. It might interest you to know that Mr. Daniel Farr... No, F-A-R

-R.

Mr. Farr, who procured the Hector Lee divorce, is paying attention to nobody

but Mrs. Lee.

I came into all this business by reason of my association with Mr. Lee. Why, I'm

his attorney.

I don't want you to get sore with me, Dan, over what I'm going to say.

But more than one man feels that the notoriety he acquired over this divorce

case makes him just a little bit ridiculous.

Now, it's different in your part, isn't it?

You were the attorney.

It was your job to do the things you did.

You know, uh...

Never met Mrs. Lee after that time.

Now, what do you have now?

Thank you, darling.

Why do you want to drag me into this business?

Because it's you we want to nominate instead of Lee.

Me? That's it?

You represent the same interests he does?

Besides, there's never been anything in the papers to make you look, uh, small.

Oh, no. And listen to this, Lee.

The other guests noticed that Mr. Barr and Mrs. Lee were together, not only the

evening of the dance, but all of Sunday as well.

They've been baked together in the exact spot where a few weeks ago the event

occurred which led to the divorce.

Now, what do you think of that? Oh, gee, he'll be sore as the devil.

Look out.

This is an extremely delicate one.

While I appreciate the compliment, I'm afraid I cannot accept it. Yes, but

supposing we refuse to elect Hector Lee, what then, eh?

You don't want us to hand over the presidency to one of the other groups,

do you? No, no, but there must be some other way out of it than that. Dig it

over, then. Dig it over.

And don't lose your reputation in the meantime.

Well, good morning. Goodbye, Mr. Green. Goodbye, Mr. Preston.

I beg your pardon, Mr. Carr, but here are today's papers.

Thank you.

My dear, have you seen the gossip?

Yes, silly, isn't it? You don't mind?

Hate it. What can I do?

I suppose I'll have to fly somewhere, South America or Europe.

You don't happen to know a place where there are no lawyers, do you?

No, my dear.

Is that reporter from the picture practice, Miss Lane?

Here? Yes, ma'am. And last time you were here, he offered me $10 if I let him in

to see you.

Wait a moment.

I said it, Rose.

You take the $10 and let him in.

Yes, ma'am.

Oui, I'm glad I came.

I'm all of God.

Darling, I simply have to have a cocktail.

Mr. Brown.

How do you do, Mr. Brown?

How do you do, Mrs. Lee? The cocktail.

Some cocktails?

Yes, ma'am. Miss Dell, Mr. Brown. How do you do, Mr. Brown?

Pleased to meet you.

Oh, Mrs. Lee.

Well, Mr. Brown?

Remember me?

I haven't a bit of press.

I covered your trial for my paper.

Well, lots of people covered my trial for the papers. I can't really remember

them all.

Sit down.

Thanks.

I suppose you've seen the papers today.

Yes, I can't understand how they can publish such rubbish.

You don't think, Mr. Brown, for one moment, that I pay the least attention

to such a story, do you?

Why, it's outrageous.

If you want a statement, why don't you find the person who gave you the

information and get it from her? Oh, say, Mrs. Lee. Well, I'm awfully sorry,

Mr. Brown, but really, really, the only thing to do with such a gossip is to

ignore it.

Personally, I've had quite enough on Dredd with no variety.

And poor Mr.

Farr has had none.

Up to now.

If you'll excuse me, I'll just go and hurry those cocktails along.

Oh, Mr. Brown, sit down.

You know, poor Marvin, if he stays up here, we don't have to worry about him.

You know, you know, I believe, I believe he is attended to.

Just, just look at the cars. I need flowers.

What are you going to do? I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

What is it, Barbara isn't with us? No, ma'am, Barbara is pretty well. Oh, thank

heaven, I was afraid something had happened.

Well, that all depends on how you look at it, madam.

Personally, she was my child.

She was my child, madam. The court made the arrangement they made in your place.

Parker, there is something the matter.

I thought it my duty to let you know, Mrs. Lee. You were always very kind to

me while I lived here with you, and I'm so fond of this little girl. Please,

please tell me.

It's Mr. Lee.

Partly because he finds it difficult having a child about, and partly because

he's under influence from outside sources and decided to send Barbara to

school in Europe, madam.

To school in Europe? Yes, and the plan is to send the little girl at once.

Oh, but he can't do that.

Someone has evidently told him that he can, ma'am.

But I'm to be allowed to see the child from time to time through the year. How

can I do that if she can't wait?

If the law's on your side, why not get a lawyer? Oh, and while some lawyer's

delving into the technicalities of the law, my partner will be sent away for

me. Isn't there anything you can do, ma'am?

Well, there's something I can try to do.

Rose, put down those cocktails.

Get my hat, my gloves, my fern. Hurry, will you please?

I won't, ma'am. I hope I've done right. I'm serving you.

A lady calling.

A lady?

Mrs. Hector Lee.

Mrs. Lee?

Oh.

Oh, yes, sure is.

How do you do? Hello.

Sit down.

Thanks. I know why you've come.

It's too bad a thing like this occurred.

It's got to be prevented.

Well, we can't prevent what's happened already.

We must prevent it happening again.

The world is scandal hungry.

Now, I suppose my being Mr. Lee's lawyer and having been seen at the opera and an

innocent little dinner together.

You think I came because of that? Really, I'm to blame.

I enjoyed so much. You know, it's something much more important at the

moment. You know, I suppose that Mr. Lee is planning to send

Barbara to Europe.

Why, no.

No, I haven't seen Lee in some time.

Well, if his plans go through...

That means I'll never see Barbara at all.

Come now, you mustn't excite yourself like that.

I can quite understand your feeling as you do.

Listen.

What are my rights in the matter?

Well, now, what you're doing, asking me.

But you know more about the situation than anybody else.

Yes.

Very well, I can tell you this much. By the court's decree, Mr. Lee has complete

and absolute charge of the child's education.

Yes, you twisted the law very cleverly to your own advantage.

Now I want you to twist it to mine.

Oh, no, that's quite impossible.

A lawyer can't act on both sides of the case. And I am Mr. Lee's lawyer.

But I'm prepared to engage with mine.

At any other time and for any other matter.

But you must see that it's quite unethical.

Oh, I don't care about ethics at a time like this.

I want Barbara for myself.

The case must be reopened, if necessary.

You ruined my reputation, and all of the court would believe that I wasn't fit to

bring her up. Come now, that's not quite fair. Well, if you've changed your mind,

why don't you come forward and say so?

I beg of you not to make things too difficult for me.

I should like to help you.

You never know how much.

But I'm not the only lawyer in the world. There are other able men.

And I shall make it my business to see if you... Yes, and then Barbara would be

rushed away before anything could be accomplished.

But if you... I won the case.

You ask me now to come forward, and they were all based on a lie.

Ready what the papers will say?

It isn't possible.

It can't be done.

Just because it's never been done before?

And I'm to be deprived of Barbara?

Barbara's to be deprived of me just at this moment in her life when she needs

me most.

I thought I knew you.

I thought beneath the ambition, the hard logic that you lived by, you had a heart

as well.

I was mistaken.

No, please, is that so?

You're the same man that you were in court.

All the gentleness, all the tenderness that I thought I saw in you was merely a

sham. I'd do anything in the world to take this case.

Well, then, why won't you do it?

Because it is quite impossible.

That's final.

There, I see the repeal.

Very well, then, I shall do the best I can without you.

This is the last time we shall meet. No, come, please.

No, Mrs. Lee, you can't be... You think that I want to meet you again after

this?

Good afternoon.

Yes.

Hector, darling.

Something happened this afternoon that's simply worrying me to death.

I had to see my lawyer about a silly old house my aunt left me, and I happened to

mention how heartbroken I'd been lately because...

Well, I thought you were going to marry me after you were divorced, and you told

me you wouldn't.

My lawyer's just like a father to me. And, oh, Hector, before I could stop

him, he pulled out a lot of papers, and he dictated a lot of things to his

stenographer.

And it looks like he's going to bring a terrible suit against you for... for

affection and other things and $500,000.

Why? It's awful I told him so, but honestly, he's just like a father to me,

and he makes me do everything he says.

I told him I wouldn't sign the Nashville papers, but he even made me do that.

And now I'm supposed to be back at the office, and I just haven't the strength

to stay away.

Flo,

you can't go.

I've got to talk to you. Well, hurry up. What is it you want to say?

Oh, of course, if you'll marry me, dear, we'll tear up the hard old papers.

Oh, but I can't. I won't. Oh, this is monstrous, Flo.

Just as if I didn't have any willpower at all.

I'm supposed to be back at the office.

And here I am running away, and I'd so much rather stay here and talk to you.

Goodbye, darling.

But, Flo.

Speak to Daniel Farr, please.

I don't know his number. He has a phone in his home and in the office. You can

call them both.

Oh, it's empty.

Empty. Oh, not to bet we're here.

Now, now, you just take a sip of mine. Oh, now, now, you go ahead and drink

that yourself now. No, no. Now, what should I have? No, no, no. No, now, I

insist. Oh, well, I'll just swim it for you.

I wonder who it can be.

Oh, what's the difference?

Hello.

Marjorie, darling, you two still here?

Oh, we had a great time, Mrs. Lee.

You know, Cindy here would make a great little publicity agent for something.

Great talent, great imagination.

Oh, I was just telling Mr. Brown how I would have written up your divorce case

if I'd been on a paper.

Well, you'll have something much more important than a divorce case.

Before long.

Oh, Marjorie.

What's happened?

Where have you been? I've had to see someone.

Thank you, my dear. I'm awfully sorry, but you know, I'm a little tired.

I wonder if you'd mind, perhaps tomorrow morning, I would like to be left alone.

Why, of course, darling, I understand.

I'll go right along.

Mr. Brown, you can come right along with me. Oh, certainly, sir. I hope

everything comes out all right.

You said you had to see someone, Mrs. Lee? Oh, please, Mr. Brown, really, this

is too much.

Oh, I see. You don't feel like an interviewer, do you? No, no, I don't

feel like an interviewer. Oh, all right. Hello?

Oh, yes.

It's Mr. Farr, Mrs. Lee. Mr. Farr? Why...

Mr. Farr, I just met you a moment ago.

I wonder what's been wrong.

I don't know, ma'am. Shall I say you're not at home?

Sure. No, wait.

Hello. Hello, yes, Mr. Farr.

I don't think you and I have anything further to say to each other.

I want to come to my house to see me alone.

Oh, well, I'm awfully sorry, but you see, I have an engagement.

So I'm going to the theatre.

Oh, I'm afraid I'll be too late.

Oh, it wouldn't.

Oh, all right.

No, my dear, I'll see you after the dinner.

Yes, goodbye.

Oh, Mr.

Brown, surely you didn't overhear my conversation with Mr. Powell? Oh, no,

no, no, Mrs. Lee. I didn't hear anything. Oh, I'm too glad.

Now, please, Mr. Brown, I'm very upset. You can see how terribly upset I am.

Would you mind going? Yes, all right, Mrs. Lee. Thank you.

Rose?

Rose, come here.

Yes, Mrs. Lee. Rose, Mr. Farrell is coming to see me tonight after the

theater. Mr. Farrell? And if I'm not very much mistaken... I'm taking that

newspaper man will be outside in the hall.

Mrs. Lee, I don't understand that.

No, no, Rose, of course you don't understand.

Rose, will you get me a cup of tea now? I'm extremely tired.

Yes, ma'am.

I've been working on this story for three days, Chief.

I'm taking no chances with this one. I'm taking a cameraman with me.

And boy, if this scoop isn't worth a healthy raise, I'm a monkey's uncle.

Yeah. Here's the way I'm going to set up the headline, Chief.

Daniel Farr, famous attorney in Hector Lee's divorce suit, succumbs to the

charm of women he degrades in court.

Oh, you're writing headlines now, too, huh? Oh, you know what I mean, Chief.

Oh, good heavens, he must be there.

What's the matter? What's the matter?

Farr! Never mind.

It's fate that brought you here, Dan. I've been trying to get you for hours.

Yes, I want to talk to you, too, Hector. You see, I had occasion to see Mrs. Lee

today. And you came to explain that article in the newspapers.

You don't have to. I know you too well to suppose that you'd pay any attention

to my divorce advice. No, I haven't come, besides, to do that.

Regarding your divorce, you see, um...

By the award of the course now that's all settled and in the most satisfactory

way thanks to you You are a great lawyer. That's why I want your advice on

behalf of a Friend of mine, but my dear fellow you give me an opportunity to

speak nothing You have to say can be half as important as this please sit

down Thank you.

A friend of mine is in great trouble He's quite an important man, but he met

a girl a year or so ago, and she had a very nice voice, and he made her, well,

sort of a protege.

Somehow, she misunderstood my friend's charity, and she now has an idea that he

ought to marry her. Of course, that isn't what my friend meant.

He isn't in a position to marry the girl without hurting his standing in the

business world.

Now, the girl knows a lawyer.

One of those crooked lawyers, I suppose, who would take any sort of a case just

so long as it would give him an opportunity to blackmail an innocent

man. And he's bringing a breach of promise suit against my friend.

And your friend met this girl a year ago?

Yes.

Before you were divorced?

What do you mean?

Oh, I suppose I know who your friend is.

You brought a particularly vile charge against your wife in order to preserve

the sanctity of the home.

While all the time you and this girl, whoever she is... Me?

Certainly. What sort of a fool do you take me for? That is true.

You've been seeing my wife and she's told you to answer me. Well, your wife's

worth a hundred like you.

Sit down. Now look here. Stand up.

But listen.

The court awarded you the custody of the child.

In doing so, the court made a mistake.

The child belongs to its mother.

And I'll ask you to see that she's returned to her mother tomorrow night.

Are you crazy?

I've proved that Mrs. Lee wasn't fit to have her.

If I send her back now, it'll be like saying I didn't tell the truth. Maybe

you didn't.

Maybe I didn't.

But still, a mistake's been made, and it must be rectified.

The child will be back at its mother tomorrow night, or it'll take steps to

reopen the case. What?

And this time, you'll find me on the other side of the fence.

Oh, good evening, sir.

Mrs. Lee is expecting me.

This is Mr. Farr. Come in, please.

Mr. Lee, I'll take your hat and coat. Oh, thank you. I'll only be here a

minute. I'll tell Mrs. Lee you're here, sir.

Mr. Farr, it's me, Mrs. Lee.

If I'm not mistaken, I saw that before. That's coming up today.

All right, Mr. Lee. All right.

I'll call you if I need you.

Oh, forgive me calling at this hour, but after your visit to my office, after

seeing you heartbroken, as you must have said... Yes, yes, yes, I know, I know, I

know. Sit down, will you please?

Thanks.

I've... I've got a few things to say to you, Mr. Thor, things that, well,

perhaps I was just a little bit too calm to say to you this afternoon in your

office. I know, but since then you've been... Yes, since then you've thought

of a hundred reasons why it would be unbecoming and unethical for a great

lawyer like you to take my case. Oh, sit down, sit down.

No, you wouldn't take my case.

No, the only kind of a case that interests you is the kind that's built

on a thread of circumstantial evidence.

Well, let's see how good you'll be at getting yourself out of a bit of

circumstantial evidence.

What would you say if the scandal papers tomorrow printed the fact in glowing and

blended headlines that you were seen leaving my apartment late at night?

Or the public would believe it, all right. You've prepared them for my evil

habits of life.

Or suppose I should prefer that someone would break in in answer to my cries for

help.

away from you.

Perhaps you'd like to know that I was the one who started those scribs in the

papers about you and me?

I don't blame you.

I deserve every bit of it.

But first let me tell you the reason for my visit.

After you left my office, I went to see your former husband and... Well, we

needn't go into all that now.

I just wanted to tell you that Barbara will be back with you tomorrow.

And if she isn't, I shall take steps... which will not only bring her back to

you, but will also tear out many things about you.

Mark, you wouldn't do that to me, would you?

I give you my word.

Well, I'm going.

Bet you hate the sight of it.

I want to come back tomorrow.

There are a lot of things I want to say to you.

Don't wait!

Wait!

Wait, you mustn't! You mustn't go over there! Don't let your mother...

Remember,

the minute that door opens, shoot!

I'm ready.

Are you all focused, Frank?

Sure, don't get excited. I'm all ready here. You got that train out? What do

you think I'm standing here for?

I think they're coming now.

All right, get out of the way. You want to be in that picture?

Don't worry about me. Protect your camera. Remember, that fire's a husky

fellow. I'll take care of that.

No, no, you mustn't! No, you mustn't! You mustn't!

Thanks a lot, folks. Just the picture first.

Oh, what have I done?

What have I done?

Oh, I must have been mad.

I must... What will I do?

Well, tell me.

What's the meaning of all this?

Oh, I must have been mad.

I wanted to square accounts with you.

I wanted to make you suffer because you made me suffer.

Oh, what can I do? What can I do to put things right?

Oh, I've got to do something.

I've got to. I know.

I know. I'll confess.

I'll tell the truth.

I'll tell them. I'll tell them I failed it. I'll tell them how I tried to kill

you. Oh, come. Let's talk about you for a little bit.

You're in this photograph, too, you know.

Oh, I know. I know. But I don't care.

I don't care whatever happens to me.

I deserve it. But you.

You.

Now when you've been so kind to me. Oh, this may have more serious consequences.

consequences for you than you imagine.

I acted in the capacity of your lawyer this evening.

I was going to advise reopening the question of custody in the courts if

necessary.

But once this story breaks, I'm afraid there will be practically no chance of

your being awarded a child.

A child?

The child of getting Barbara?

And you and Barbara?

The only two people in the world to whom I owe anything.

I think I can stop this photograph.

If you want me to.

If I want you to, it's... Oh, I'd do anything, anything in this world if it

was possible.

Well, don't be too sure.

You may change your mind.

Hello?

Give me canal 3230.

Is that the picture press?

I want to speak to the editor, please.

I'm going to try to make you understand, Marjorie.

This afternoon you told me that I had no heart.

Well, I've always had one, but it never gave me any trouble until I met you.

Hello.

Hello. Oh, this is Daniel Farr. Just hold the light a minute, please, will

you? From the very first moment I saw you in that courtroom, I was attracted

by you.

Perhaps that's why I fought with you as viciously as I did.

I really think I was fighting that attraction more than I was fighting you,

Marjorie. Hello?

Hello. No, no, no, I'm not speaking to you.

Oh, yes, of course. Well, the men from your paper have just taken a photograph

of Mrs. Marjorie Lee and me.

Oh, no, no, with no objection, not at all.

But we are just announcing our engagement, and I thought that perhaps

we could pose and get a better picture. You see, we're rather nervous just now

as we weren't prepared.

Could you send your men back?

Oh, by the way, Mrs.

Lee is with me.

and he will confirm our engagement.

You can say either yes or no.

Yes.

When that fat head comes in, tell him his story is not worth a nickel.

What are you thinking?

Well, I think... I think... I think I'm going

to laugh.

I love to hear you laugh.

Thank you.