1:54:03
Eve, dear, this is Addison.
1:54:07
Oh, Addison, won't it be just perfect?
1:54:09
Lloyd and I.
There's no telling howfar we can go.
1:54:13
He'll write great plays for me.
I'll make them great.
1:54:16
You're the only one who knows,
except Lloyd and me.
1:54:19
- And Karen.
- She doesn't know.
1:54:21
- She knows enough not to be here.
- But not all of it.
1:54:24
- Not that Lloyd and I are gonna be married.
- I see.
1:54:28
And when was this unholy alliance joined?
1:54:31
We decided night before last,
before we came up here.
1:54:34
I trust the setting was properly romantic.
1:54:37
Lights on dimmers
and gypsy violins offstage.
1:54:41
The setting wasn't romantic,
1:54:43
but Lloyd was.
1:54:46
He woke me up at three o'clock
in the morning, banging on my door.
1:54:49
He couldn't sleep, he said. He'd left Karen.
1:54:52
Couldn't go on with the play or anything
else until I promised to marry him.
1:54:57
We sat and talked until it was light.
1:55:00
He never went home.
1:55:02
- You sat and talked until it was light?
- We sat and talked, Addison.
1:55:07
I want a run-of-the-play contract.
1:55:11
There never was, and there
never will be, another like you.
1:55:16
Well, say something. Anything.
1:55:19
Congratulations. SkäI. Good work, Eve.
1:55:28
- What do you take me for?
- I don't knowthat I "take you" for anything.
1:55:32
Is it possible thatyou've confused me
1:55:35
with those backward children
you've played tricks on?
1:55:39
That you have the same contempt
for me as for them?
1:55:41
I'm sure you mean something,
but I don't know what.
1:55:44
Look closely, Eve. It's time you did.
1:55:47
I am Addison DeWitt.
I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.
1:55:52
- I never intended you to be.
- Yes, you did, and you still do.
1:55:56
I don't know whatyou mean.
But I want to take my nap. It's important...
1:55:59
- It's important that we talk, killer to killer.
- Champion to champion.