1:42:03
No, Operator, we completed that call.
1:42:13
Listen to me.
1:42:15
There's nothing you could say
that I haven't heard.
1:42:17
Sure? Maybe I got a new slant.
1:42:20
I come from a world where a woman's got
to come out on top or it's too darn bad.
1:42:25
Talk to me all you want.
What does it come to? Compromise.
1:42:30
What the heck! A woman is
compromised the day she's born.
1:42:35
Can't compromise with utter defeat.
1:42:38
He doesn't want me.
1:42:40
- How do you know?
- I've waited every day to hear from him.
1:42:44
- Did you write to him?
- Of course not.
1:42:47
How do you know
he hasn't been waiting, too?
1:42:51
Listen, honey,
I've been through all this before.
1:42:54
I lost my man, too.
1:42:56
You?
1:42:57
It only happened once.
Got wise to myself after that.
1:43:00
How did I lose him?
1:43:03
We didn't have enough dough
to get married and I wouldn't...
1:43:07
I had my pride.
Heaven knows where I got it.
1:43:11
I liked him a lot better
than I've ever liked anybody since.
1:43:14
One day, my Romeo took
a little walkout on me.
1:43:17
I made a terrible row. Why shouldn't I?
1:43:19
But what I ought not to have done
was to run away...
1:43:22
...and leave him in the clutches
of that woman, like a coward.
1:43:25
That's what you are, Mary Haines,
you're a blithering coward.
1:43:31
Why?
1:43:34
Because I wouldn't stay
to be second fiddle?
1:43:36
Because you ran out of the trenches
under fire. You deserted him.
1:43:40
- I deserted him?
- Sure you did.
1:43:43
You think he wants to be
in the grip of that red-headed octopus?
1:43:46
If you'd given him a chance,
he'd have asked you not to get a divorce.
1:43:51
Why, Miriam, he did ask me.
1:43:54
- And you still ran away?
- Yes.
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seven, eight, nine.