Ball of Fire Page #19

- No, thank you.

1604

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Why? What? Very well.

1605

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(CONGA MUSIC PLAYING)

1606

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Gentlemen, just a moment, please.

1607

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29:09,510 -- 01:29:12,343

Before we attempt to get back to work,

I'd like to say a few words.

1608

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You've been very kind and very tactful.

If I may say so, over-tactful.

1609

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The entire ride home in the car,

1610

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29:19,787 -- 01:29:23,553

you avoided a certain subject

and made empty conversation.

1611

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Now, let's have it out.

I made an ass of myself and I know it.

1612

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Oh, well, we all have, Potts.

1613

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29:28,662 -- 01:29:30,823

Yes, but I was the lead donkey.

1614

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29:31,398 -- 01:29:36,028

Why not just regard the episode

as a prolonged constitutional?

1615

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29:36,103 -- 01:29:38,196

That's right. That's what we'll do.

1616

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Thank you.

1617

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29:39,373 -- 01:29:42,934

What happened to our emotions

can't be undone.

1618

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29:43,010 -- 01:29:45,604

What happened to our work

must be remedied.

1619

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29:45,679 -- 01:29:49,775

I'm sorry, but because of me

we must work two extra hours a day.

1620

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29:49,850 -- 01:29:51,442

In a month,

we'll be back on schedule again.

1621

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29:51,518 -- 01:29:52,712

- Sure.

- That's right.

1622

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Now, we are all scholars.

1623

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29:54,421 -- 01:29:57,049

Let us withdraw behind our wall of books,

1624

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and may her name never

be brought up in this house again.

1625

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- We didn't mention it, Potts.

- Not even by omitting it so obviously.

1626

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Excuse me, Bertram, but...

1627

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Well, now that

we are burying her memory,

1628

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I feel it only fair, you see,

she gave me something for you.

1629

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I found her crying in her bungalow,

and she slipped your ring into my pocket.

1630

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Put it in the wastebasket, please, Oddly.

1631

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(STUTTERING) Just a moment.

Just a moment.

1632

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- Is this your ring, Potts?

- That for $39.85?

1633

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- Doesn't look like it.

- Why, no it is not.

1634

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- Are you sure?

- Positive.

1635

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Because if this is the one she gave

back to you and not the one you gave her,

1636

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it's enormously interesting.

1637

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- But why?

- Why? How so?

1638

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Potts.

1639

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- She loves you.

- How can you say that?

1640

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Please, she happened

to pull that one off by mistake.

1641

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- Not according to Professor Freud.

- Freud?

1642

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The subconscious mind

never makes mistakes.

1643

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She gave you the ring she didn't want,

his ring.

1644

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And she kept the one she wanted, yours.

1645

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- That's right, Potts.

- Bosh and nonsense.

1646

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I agree with Miss Bragg.

1647

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I refuse to be coddled with

a lot of psychoanalytical nonsense.

1648

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As one who understands a woman's heart,

I would like to...

1649

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- Good morning.

- Good morning.

1650

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Quite an eventful night

last night, gentlemen.

1651

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At least, so we see by the papers.

1652

01:
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We're quite fresh this morning, however.

And we're going back to work with a will.

1653

01:
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- Yes, indeed.

- There's no hurry about that.

1654

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- Not any longer.

- We've had quite enough of your activities.

1655

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It has cost the estate some $300,000

to at last have its name

1656

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31:40,327 -- 01:31:42,352

spread across every tabloid in New York.

1657

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"Night club babe hides out

in Totten Foundation."

1658

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- And this one.

- Yes.

1659

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"Professor bridegroom carries

ball of fire across state line."

1660

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And many others like it.

1661

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For my father, I feel profound humiliation.

For myself, unutterable disgust.

1662

01:
31:57,277 -- 01:31:58,938

- Shall I go ahead?

- Please.

1663

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For the aforesaid reasons,

1664

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Miss Totten has decided

to discontinue the encyclopedia.

1665

01:
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What?

1666

01:
32:03,817 -- 01:32:05,842

- How soon can you vacate?

- Vacate? After nine years?

1667

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- Expelled in disgrace?

- Pull the chair from under us?

1668

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Thrown out like eight old shoes?

1669

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I'm sorry, gentlemen,

but my mind's made up.

1670

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Go ahead, Mr. Larsen.

1671

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Several real estate firms

are interested in this property.

1672

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One of the companies wants to erect

an apartment house here, giving you...

1673

01:
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Whoa! Please don't do that.

1674

01:
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I'm sorry.

1675

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One word, Miss Totten, may I?

1676

01:
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In your very understandable excitement,

a great injustice is being done.

1677

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I am the guilty one.

1678

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And I accept my dishonorable discharge

without protest,

1679

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but that others should suffer

and be punished

1680

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(STAMMERING) for my misconduct

is unthinkable.

1681

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(WINDOW BREAKS)

1682

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Oh, my goodness, what was that?

1683

01:
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- Good morning.

- Good morning.

1684

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Everybody line up over there,

like for a photograph.

1685

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With you, Bertram, in the foreground.

1686

01:
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Come on, get going.

1687

01:
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Get around, get around. Go on.

Faster. Keep moving.

1688

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Saint Valentine's Day!

1689

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Is the bride ready yet?

1690

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- No, not yet.

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