1:47:02
- You'll be there, won'tyou?
- Often enough to keep the franchise.
1:47:06
No more make-believe, offstage or on.
1:47:08
Remember, Lloyd? I mean it now.
1:47:11
Lloyd, will you promise
not to be angry with me?
1:47:15
- That depends.
- No, I mean deeply angry.
1:47:17
I don't think I could be.
1:47:20
Well, I don't want to play Cora.
1:47:23
- What?
- You're always so touchy about his plays.
1:47:26
It isn't the part. It's a great part
and a fine play. But not for me any more.
1:47:30
Not for a foursquare, upright,
downright, forthright, married lady.
1:47:35
- What's your being married got to do with it?
- It means I've finally got a life to live.
1:47:40
I don't have to play parts I'm too old for
1:47:43
just because I've got
nothing to do with my nights.
1:47:47
Lloyd, I'll make it up to you, believe me.
1:47:50
I'll tour a year with this one, anything.
Only you do understand, don'tyou?
1:48:01
- What's so funny?
- Nothing.
1:48:04
- Nothing?
- Everything. Everything's so funny.
1:48:19
Lloyd never got around to asking
1:48:22
whether it was all right with me
for Eve to play Cora.
1:48:26
Bill, oddly enough, refused to direct
the play at first... with Eve in it.
1:48:31
Lloyd and Max finally won him over.
1:48:33
Margo never came to rehearsal.
Too much to do around the house, she said.
1:48:39
I'd never known Bill and Lloyd
to fight as bitterly and often,
1:48:43
and always over some business for Eve,
1:48:46
or a move, or the way she read a speech.
1:48:49
But I'd never known Lloyd
to meddle as much with Bill's directing,
1:48:53
as far as it affected Eve, that is.
1:48:56
Somehow Eve kept them going.
1:48:59
Bill stuck it out. Lloyd seemed happy.