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.
1:43:58
One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine.
1:44:01
Listen, honey, don't you know
that we dames have got to be...
1:44:05
...a lot more to the guy we marry
than a schoolgirl sweetheart?
1:44:08
We got to be a wife.
And a mother, and a pal.
1:44:13
And a nursemaid.
1:44:15
Sometimes, when it comes to the point,
we've even got to be a cutie.
1:44:19
You should have licked that girl
where she licked you, in his arms.
1:44:23
That's where you win in the first round.
1:44:26
And if I know men,
it's still Custer's Last Stand.
1:44:30
Shocked you?
1:44:31
Okay, sister, but my idea of love
is that love isn't ashamed of nothing.
1:44:36
That's easy enough to say, Miriam,
but that girl's in his blood.
1:44:40
I couldn't have stayed under the same roof
with him and faced that.
1:44:44
Why not? Suppose the guy had smallpox.
1:44:46
Would you had liked to have faced that?
But you'd have done it.
1:44:50
This jam that he's in would make
a bad case of smallpox look like a carnival.
1:44:55
While the poor guy's
floundering around helpless...
1:44:57
...you remove the one protection he's got,
his legal marriage.