The Palm Beach Story
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:14:00
I wasn't thinking about me.
I just meant you.

:14:04
Oh, you mean the bust-up?
Mm-hmm.

:14:10
When'd you get that idea? This afternoon?
I've had it for some time,

:14:13
but something always said,
"Wait till he crashes through.
Wait till he's made one success."

:14:19
You'll never make a success
with me around. I'm just a milestone
around your neck.

:14:23
Millstone.
I'm no good for you,
darling.

:14:26
I don't mean I'm not good for somebody,
but I can't cook or sew or whip up
a little dress out of last year's curtains.

:14:32
What difference does that make?
I'm just like a car that only gives seven miles
to the tankful, only you haven't got the tankful.

:14:37
Are you sure
you haven't got a tankful?

:14:40
You see, by yourself,
you could live so simply. I mean,
just a little room anywhere...

:14:44
or maybe move in with your brother
or even use the couch in your office.

:14:47
And you wouldn't keep
slipping back all the time.
You could balance what you earned...

:14:50
and look the worid in the eye,
maybe even get ahead a little.

:14:54
Thanks. And what
would you be doing?
Oh, that's no problem.

:14:57
You can always find a good provider
if you really want one. He may not
look like a movie star, but...

:15:02
We'll get ahead someday.
But I don't want it someday.
I want it now, while I can still enjoy it.

:15:07
Anyway, men don't get smarter
as they grow older; they just lose their hair.

:15:10
Gerry.
But I would! I'm very tired
of being broke, darling,

:15:14
and feeling so helpless
about having my hands tied.

:15:17
I could've helped you so many times,
but every time I tried to, you tried
to punch the man in the nose.

:15:22
Don't talk rot.
How about that president
of the smelting company?

:15:26
That wolf!
Well, he's still the president
of a smelting company.

:15:29
We might've been
in the smelting business now,
and paying our rent.

:15:32
Lovely.
He liked you very much,
he said.

:15:34
The less I hear about that hyena,
the better I'll like it.
But that's what's so irritating...

:15:38
to know that I could get you someplace...
without doing any harm either.

:15:42
You have no idea
what a long-legged gal can do
without doing anything.

:15:46
And instead of that, I have
to watch you stamping around proudly,
like Sitting Bull in a new blanket,

:15:52
breathing through your nose
while we both starve to death.

:15:54
Thanks.
You don't have to keep saying "thanks"
all the time. I'm not being so nice.

:15:58
That's the first time I've said it.
If you want a divorce,
you're certainly entitled to it.


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