:35:05
If I were you, I'd open it.
:35:07
Smithy, you are a fraud.
I'm simply dying of curiosity.
:35:12
It's from Liverpool, from that newspaper.
:35:14
I say. So it is.
:35:16
"Liverpool Mercury. Managing Editor,
Samuel C. Henson."
:35:19
Must be about that article you sent them.
:35:21
- Yes, I suppose it could be.
- For pity's sake, Smithy, open it.
:35:34
- It's a check.
- I don't believe it. Let me look.
:35:36
It's a small check, but it's a check.
:35:41
Smithy, how wonderful.
:35:43
- Aren't you terribly happy?
- Yes, I am.
:35:47
- Means an awful lot.
- Smithy, I'm proud of you.
:35:50
You didn't know you had an author
on your hands, did you?
:35:53
Yes, I did. I knew you were good.
I'm really not a bit surprised.
:35:57
You think I can sell another?
:35:59
Another and another and another.
Lots of them.
:36:05
Smithy, I wonder if you were a writer
before you...
:36:09
- Before the war.
- Yes, I've wondered that, too.
:36:12
Aren't you terribly curious?
About the past, I mean?
:36:15
Well, I'd like to know,
but the present's looking up.
:36:18
Supposing it all
came back to you suddenly...
:36:20
and it was awfully grand,
with all sorts of wonderful people?
:36:23
I wouldn't mind a bit.
:36:25
You might even be married, Smithy.
Who knows?
:36:27
Nonsense.
:36:30
- How can you be so sure?
- Well, because...
:36:35
Paula, I wonder
if I could make a living at writing.
:36:39
Of course you could.
:36:40
Make a regular income, be independent.
:36:46
Why not?
:36:48
And I'm getting quite good at typewriting.
:36:58
It's a lot of nerve, but...