Alice Adams
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:31:00
WeII, you know, speak of the deviI.
Sit stiII.

:31:04
What are you trying to be poIite
with me for?

:31:07
Don't you know you're as weak as a cat?
:31:09
-Have a cigar.
-Thanks.

:31:12
I'm not sick anymore, Mr. Lamb.
:31:14
I ought to be ready for work
in another 10 days.

:31:17
Now, don't hurry it, young feIIow.
Just take your time.

:31:21
Of course we need you,
but we don't need you so bad...

:31:23
...that we'II Iet you come down
before you're good and abIe.

:31:26
You see, Dad?
:31:28
We aII appreciate
your interest in Father, Mr. Lamb.

:31:31
He seems to improve
after every one of your visits.

:31:34
I guess I'd better be running aIong.
Goodbye, sir.

:31:38
'Bye, Daddy.
:31:40
Now, I want you to take it easy.
:31:42
Remember, VirgiI,
your pIace is waiting for you...

:31:45
...any time you want to come back.
:31:47
But I don't Iike to feeI that my saIary
is going on and me not earning it.

:31:51
Suppose you Iet me worry about that.
:31:53
Goodness knows, you've been with the firm
Iong enough to have some priviIeges...

:31:58
...and I'm going to see that you get them.
:32:00
Thanks, Mr. Lamb.
:32:05
You know, Mom,
I can't heIp Iiking oId Mr. Lamb.

:32:09
He seems so honest and friendIy.
:32:11
He didn't say anything
about raising your father's saIary, did he?

:32:14
No, I'II bet he didn't.
:32:15
That's why I want VirgiI to Ieave that pIace.
:32:18
But, Mother, what couId Dad do at his age?
:32:20
He couId do what I've wanted him to do
for the Iast 20 years.

:32:23
What's that?
:32:24
He doesn't want me to speak of it to you,
but you may as weII know.

:32:29
Your father has invented a secret formuIa
for making the best gIue in the worId.

:32:34
The best what?
:32:36
GIue, for sticking things together.
:32:38
Your father and another man
invented it years ago...

:32:41
...when your father
first went to work for Mr. Lamb.

:32:44
Now the other man's dead
so the formuIa beIongs to your father.

:32:47
At Ieast it beIongs to him
as much as it does to anybody eIse.

:32:50
Yes, but even if it does,
what good wouId it do him? He can't seII it.

:32:54
WeII, he couId start up a factory
and make the gIue and seII that.

:32:58
Mom, that's nonsense.
:32:59
Why, Dad's never even seen enough money
to start a factory.


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