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Daisy Kenyon Page #7
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what a bitter thing divorce is.
You'll only be torturing
the children and yourself.
Go to bed, dear. You'll be able to think
about it more calmly in the morning.
After all, you don't break up a marriage just
on the evidence of a telephone conversation.
He says I treat the children as if they
were babies. All right, I won't anymore.
They're grown-up enough to learn
what kind of a father they've got.
You couldn't sleep either?
I don't see how I missed you.
I covered both waterfronts.
Don't go in yet.
Your friend Mary's seen enough of me
for one night.
Daisy, I think I'm humble now.
I wasn't before, but I am now.
I haven't started to straighten out
the mess at home yet.
I had to have a look at you first.
- Dan, don't-
- Just a look.
I couldn't go on thinking of you
with that expression in your eyes.
Oh.
I didn't know
if you were coming back.
I didn't know
you were going to stay.
Lucille thought it would be better
if I did the talking for her.
As what? Her father or her lawyer?
A little of both. She wants a divorce,
and I can't talk her out of it.
The only question is, what kind?
The best that money can buy,
I guess.
Lucille's quite bitter at the moment.
Perhaps you can understand that.
She wants to divorce you in New York
and name Mrs. Lapham.
- And what do you think?
- I might be able to persuade her to do it the easier way...
if you'd cooperate
about the children.
And what is her idea
of cooperation about the children?
Sole and absolute custody.
Of course, eventually, you'd be able to see
them when they're a little more grown-up.
But Lucille thinks there should be a clean
break now till they're adjusted to it.
Perhaps you can understand that.
Till she's sold them on the idea
that I've run out on them.
Well, come now, Papa. Let's talk sense.
for anything like that.
Then we file the suit.
There's no other choice, Dan.
for a couple of days and let me know.
- Well, thanks. I'll phone you.
- Oh, I'll be in the office.
But I won't.
I'm pulling out of the firm, sugarplum.
Perhaps you
can understand that.
But, Dan, there's no reason
why a purely personal conflict-
Sure, there is-
Your sensitive nature.
You'd wear a smile, I know, but deep down,
you'd be wincing every time we met.
Your humor's in rather bad taste.
Besides, it would give you something
to occupy your time.
Without me around,
you'll have to work for your income.
- This Mr. O'Mara's office?
- Yes.
- You're Mr. Lapham?
- Yes.
He's expecting you.
Go right in, please.
- Hello.
- Welcome to chaos, Mr. Lapham. Throw me my hat, sweetheart.
- Mervyn, you understand all this is to go to the new office.
- Yes, Mr. O'Mara.
- Good-bye, darlings. I'll see you in
the morning. - Good-bye, Mr. O'Mara.
Mr. Lapham,
you'll think it's strange.
I'll explain to you why I took the liberty
of asking you to come here.
Hello, honey.
What are you doing here?
C- Can I see you
in your office, Daddy?
A new client already.
O'Mara retained by O'Mara.
Please, Dan.
I'll be with you in a second, Mr. Lapham.
Now, what is it, sweetheart?
Rosamund was coming, too,
to talk to you.
She said herself
it was terribly important.
And then Millicent Harrison
asked her to go to a movie.
But, anyways, it's important to me.
What is this that's so important, honey?
I'm gonna live with you. I don't care what
Rosamund does, but I'm gonna live with you.
At the club, baby?
Ladies aren't allowed there.
All right, I'll move from the club,
just as soon as I can.
Then you and Ros can
come and live with me.
Whenever it's all right
with your mommy, that is.
It won't be all right with her.
Dan, it's awful there without you.
Why is it so awful, honey?
I was always away a lot. You'll see
me just as much, maybe even more.
When you're not there, she hates me.
Oh, no. You're wrong.
She'd never hate you.
You mustn't think because
anybody's unhappy, they hate you.
We'll talk about it again, sweetheart.
You're all wrong about your mother.
- Suppose I pick you up from school tomorrow?
- I want to talk about it today.
No, tomorrow.
I'll tell you what we'll do.
We'll go someplace and have tea-
a regular, grown-up date,
just the two of us, hmm?
- Oh, Mervyn?
- Yes, sir?
Would you take Marie
and show her the new office?
- Then see that she gets home okay.
- Yes, sir.
So long, honeybunch.
I'll see you tomorrow.
I'm not gonna
live with her. I won't.
We'll talk about that
tomorrow, baby.
I'm sorry I kept you waiting,
Mr. Lapham.
Why did you wire me, Mr. O'Mara?
Has something happened?
No, I wired you because I wanted
to tell you that nothing's happened.
Well, that's clear now.
We're meeting Daisy.
I didn't tell her you were coming down.
Well, there she is already.
- Hello, honeybunch.
- Hello, Mr. O'Mara.
- Hello, Daisy.
- Hello, darling.
Hello. Would you like a drink?
Bourbon and water, please.
- One bourbon and water and two martinis.
- Yes, sir.
Do you two get together often?
Not as often as we should.
Weren't you supposed to make
the trial run on Dino's boat today?
They're waiting for me
to fly back tonight.
Why'd you come down?
I wired him.
I have things to say
to both of you...
and there's no point
in saying them twice.
I wired you, Mr. Lapham...
because I think
misunderstandings are childish.
- We're grown-up people.
- I believe we are.
Don't you know it?
I have a hunch that when people keep
on talking about how grown-up they are...
it only means they're not very sure of it,
Mr. O'Mara.
Well, if you'll let me talk, maybe
you won't worry so much about that.
Let's simplify one thing at least.
He's called Peter, and you're Dan.
It all started on Wednesday.
I'd had a bad day.
I lost a case that-
Well, there's no point
in going into that.
But I went over to 12th Street...
and I behaved like a heel.
Your wife resisted.
I'll be frank to say
if she hadn't resisted...
we wouldn't all be sitting here now.
- No, nothing important.
Why isn't it important?
Because it doesn't matter
what happened.
You're not getting hostile, are you?
That wasn't on the agenda.
Honeybunch, I'm not hostile.
Honest. Go on.
I want another martini.
You haven't touched
the first one yet.
Well, that's that.
If it were something that
only concerned the three of us...
we wouldn't need to say
another word about it.
But I'm asking your permission to let me
turn our private affairs into newspaper copy.
Lucille is suing me for divorce.
She wants to do it in New York,
naming Daisy as corespondent.
They figure, in order to keep Daisy's name
out of the newspaper...
I'll sign away the right
to see my children.
Oh, no, Dan.
You mustn't.
It would be terrible for them-
Marie, especially.
I'm putting it up to you.
It's not a thing to be decided
without realizing what it involves.
This is exactly the kind of copy
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