:43:12
Cor-anda!
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Corinne, you're never gonna believe this, but...
:43:20
Miranda, this may come as a shock to you,
but...
:43:32
- Morning.
- Morning.
:43:34
- I'm here to see Mrs Jeffries.
- She's in a meeting. Are you the caterer?
:43:37
No. I'm... an old friend.
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Oh. Just have a seat. She won't be long.
:43:44
Thanks.
:43:46
Corinne I've developed the fine art
of reading between the lips
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and I see nothing but budget cuts
on the horizon
:43:53
No-one is happy about it
:43:56
They won't bend the rules this time my dear
Not even for you
:44:00
It is eight hours before the opening
and you're telling me they want to fire me?
:44:05
Corinne, we are two million dollars in the hole.
:44:07
And it was you who insisted - and I quote -
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"The American people
maintain an insatiable curiosity
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about that eclectic group of women
:44:16
who fashioned everything
from foreign policy to hemlines at home.
:44:19
I still believe that.
:44:20
We still have to pay back the emergency fund
so another department can have an emergency.
:44:26
- I know that!
- By Friday.
:44:28
Friday? But it's Wednesday.
That's impossible!
:44:31
Now look, you remember that friend
of mine who I hate, Mavis Talmadge?
:44:35
- Yes...
- Well, tonight at the opening,
:44:38
I want you to put the squeeze on old Mavis.
:44:40
Why can't you?
:44:42
Mavis Talmadge
is not someone I'd care to squeeze.
:44:45
No-one in Washington is as rich as Mavis.
:44:48
She's her own corporation,
her own... landmass.
:44:52
Now, Corinne,
Mavis Talmadge is the way to go.
:44:58
I don't want to bother her and I don't feel well,
so I'll just come back some other time.