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on your yacht. I've a job to hold down.

Oh .. the sausage business.

It isn't the sausage business.

It's the advertizing business.

But you will give up the

advertizing business.

I'm going to do nothing of the kind.

Why, darling? I have enough

money for both of us.

Carol, can I have a quarter? I want to

go out and get a package of cigarettes.

Oh don't be silly.

It won't be like that.

Besides, if you .. really love me ..

Wait a minute.

I love you more than I thought

it was possible to love anybody.

I am completely drowned in

a sea of blissful anticipation.

Over the fact that you are

about to become my wife.

I'm sorry, Bill.

I'm not going to even try and tell you.

Men never understand how

much women love them.

Well then, that's all settled, isn't it.

Bill.

Uhuh.

You can take 3 months off to take me to

Monte Carlo for a honeymoon, can't you?

Carol, I can't afford to take 3 months

off and pay for a honeymoon in Europe.

Why can't I pay for it?

I'm marrying you. Not your bank account.

Oh Bill, you're just

being a quixotic fool.

Perhaps I am, but that's

the guy you've got to marry.

Say, is this a private

fight or can anybody join?

No, no fighting.

Come on, Carol. Let's dance.

I want to get as much

use out of you as possible.

While you're still freelancing.

Are we keeping you up?

No. I don't know why I'm so sleepy.

I didn't roll out of bed

till way past noon today.

You lead a hard life.

Well Bill, we'll have plenty of

dances before the evening's over.

The orchestra is going

to play until 4 am.

That's just the shank

of the evening, blessed.

Darling.

Goodnight, Phyllis.

Goodnight.

Goodnight.

Happy dreams.

Never mind, Joseph.

Anything more, Miss Carol?

Goodnight, Joseph.

Goodnight, Mr Wade.

Goodnight, Miss Carol.

Goodnight, Joseph.

I ought to be in bed this minute.

But we're going to settle this now.

You've been absurd tonight, Bill.

Carol, you might just as well

make up your mind to one thing.

You are going to live on my income.

Your income?

How much is that?

Twenty thousand a year.

Wait a minute, I'm not apologizing.

I'm not asking you to share my poverty.

I'm mighty lucky to be making

that money in these times.

But that's less than 400 dollars a week.

And you're lucky, too.

You're one girl in ten thousand who can

get a man who's making 400 a week.

Oh Bill, why shouldn't we have

everything out of life that we can?

I refuse to go through

life having people say:

There goes Bill Wade who married

Carol Morgan's millions. Millions.

But you have your own job. I'm very

willing to have you stay with sausages.

Don't say sausages!

Sausages, sausages, sausages!

Your sentiments are very noble, Bill.

But it is your pride speaking.

Who says it isn't?

Do you think I have any pride?

Pride? What in?

In the only things I

can do in my position.

Why should I close up this lovely house

and discharge a lot of good servants?

When it's unnecessary.

I'll tell you why. To be: Mrs Bill Wade.

Oh .. is that final?

Bill Wade on twenty thousand a year.

Well, if you're going to make money so

important, I'll make it important, too.

If you are going to make an issue ..

Of living on your salary,

I shall make an issue ..

Of having the things

I can with my money.

Alright. Consider it settled then.

Well, that suits me.

Great. Maybe I'll get

some sleep for a change.

Maybe you will.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

I couldn't leave you like this.

I was going to phone your apartment.

I'm sorry.

Don't talk.

Hold me tight.

What time do you want me to pick you up

tomorrow to go to the license bureau?

Tomorrow? Oh, Bill.

But I can get the wedding

ready in a month.

Carol, darling.

You are in no position

to dictate terms now.

Neither are you.

That's a funny way for you to talk.

You didn't by any chance

plan this deliberately?

How could it have been an accident?

Now darling, we'll get married without

any terms or conditions whatsoever.

We'll get married tomorrow.

And settle down to work out

normal life .. on my income.

Supposing I refuse?

You can't refuse.

Oh, I can't refuse but you can?

If you weren't brought up like

a character out of Arabian Nights.

You'd see my viewpoint.

The viewpoint of a caveman

who moves his wife with a club.

Say, I ought to act like a caveman and

beat some common-sense in to your head.

Yes. That would be just

your idea of matrimony.

To come home late and beat your

wife up because the soup was cold.

I would be so unimportant in this house

as Miss Carol Morgan's husband ..

That if I came home late,

the soup would be cold.

We don't have soup in

the house .. I hate soup.

Ye Gods. We can even

get into a row about soup.

Yes, the row is about soup, and beans

and brooms and laundry and cooks.

With my income I don't intend to mess

about in a small apartment and one maid.

With your money you make me feel like an

immigrant whose wife takes in washing.

Now you listen to me.

This is my ultimatum.

You're giving ultimatums? That's good.

Shut up!

This is one time we are not going

to stand here and argue all night.

Will you do as I wish? Or ..

First, I'll have to burn all the clothes

and jewelry I bought with my own money.

Shut up .. what's your answer?

Oh .. sausages!

Miss Morgan, in the circumstances ..

You should feel very glad that

this is 1932 and not the prim '80s.

I don't see any shotguns around.

So I'll say goodnight.

When you come to

your senses, call me up.

I'll be waiting.

Yes.

Mr Carter is on the phone.

He wants to make an appointment.

Oh, well tell him I'll drop into

the bank on my way downtown.

And get Mr Wade on the phone at once.

Yes, Miss Morgan.

These extraordinary times

require extraordinary measures.

You try to frighten me.

Carol, you are broke. And there

is no mincing words about it.

But everything can't be gone.

Borrowed on.

Up to the hilt. Beyond the hilt.

Well, sell everything.

Pay off the loans.

You've borrowed over 2 millions on what

was 12 million dollars of security.

Yes. At present market prices ..

When we clear this up you'll only

owe them about half a million more

And that's only one instance.

What am I to do?

First, the house must go.

Sell my house?

Why, you're out of your mind.

You can't do this to me.

Money can't vanish.

Oh, you fools!

Why didn't you save me?

Why didn't you do something?

That's rich.

Indecent.

But .. but what am I to do?

The world is not itself.

Great changes have taken place.

You must endure a great change yourself.

Go to work!

I can't work.

I don't know how.

Thank you.

Oh, I beg your pardon but ..

Mr Wade's secretary sent me in.

Well I'm Bill's brother. Anthony Wade.

Oh.

Most people call me Tony.

I didn't mean that you would.

You are Carol Morgan, aren't you?

But I would call you Tony.

You don't look as if you

belong in an office.

You've got that wide-open-spaces look.

Well, I'm just hail from Colorado.

Oh good heavens. What does

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