Red-Headed Woman

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So gentlemen prefer blonds, do they?

Yes, they do.

Can you see through this?

-I'm afraid you can, miss, but--

-I'll wear it.

The boss' picture.

Well, it'll get me more there

than it will hanging on the wall.

-There you are.

-Hurry up with that, will you?

-What's up?

-I'm ducking Al.

-Have a soda, Lily?

-No thanks.

Listen, I'm on my way up to

the boss' house with his mail.

-Why didn't his secretary do it?

-Because I swiped it off her desk.

These are important and they've

gotta be answered right away.

Maybe I'll get a chance to stay

and take dictation.

-What will that get you?

-Don't be dumb. His wife's in Cleveland.

Say, Bill Legendre's crazy

about his wife.

Well, he's a man, isn't he?

Who do you think's

gonna smell your tonsils?

Al.

You're here.

Hello, hon.

Didn't I phone and say

I'd wait for you at the office?

Don't be an old meanie.

If I thought you were working

double shifts on me--

Al, come here. Come here.

Al, Al, I wish you'd

speak to that fresh soda jerk.

-What for?

-Well, he said something to me.

Say you, I'll teach you

to get fresh with my girl.

-I didn't say nothing.

-Oh, you didn't?

Hello, Mrs. Willoughby.

-She belongs to the country club.

-How do you know?

I saw her, I was standing outside.

So that's what you are,

just an outside member of the country club.

Yeah, well, I'll be in there some day.

Gee, I'm beginning

to get a little nervous.

Here, hon, hold these.

I'd be nervous myself if I didn't have

any more brains than you've got.

Thanks.

-I'll meet you later at the apartment.

-I'll wait here for you.

You better not. I might be a long time.

Oh, no, you won't.

Why, Miss Andrews, what is it?

I was worried about your cold.

It's much better, thanks.

I'll be back at work in the morning.

Did your butler tell you I'd be glad

to stay and help with your mail?

Oh, yes, and thank you very much, but I'll

have my secretary attend to it tomorrow.

Mr. Legendre.

Is there something the matter with me?

Something the matter with you?

Why, no. Why did you ask?

Well, you always avoid me at the office.

Whenever I want to help you, you send

me away and get somebody else.

Well, I'll tell you the trouble, Red.

You're too pretty and I don't trust myself.

Oh, Mr. Legendre,

do you honestly think I'm pretty?

Yes. Yes, too darned pretty altogether.

Oh, Mr. Legendre.

Well, thank you so much for coming up,

Red, and I'll see you in the morning.

In---

I walked all the way up here all alone...

...just because I knew how important

those letters were.

And now you're sending me away,

just like you always do.

Trying to put me to work, huh?

Oh, can't I stay and help, please?

Can't I?

All right, since you've taken

all this trouble.

It might be a good plan

to get them out of the way.

Now...

Yes.

Huntley Milling Corporation

800 State Street, Cleveland.

Dear sirs...

Dear Sir, I'm replying to

your query of the...

...the 16th.

-The 16th?

Yes, 16th.

In regard to that quality of the coal

that we sent you in our last shipment...

...I would--

I would say that...

I'd say...

I wish you'd brace up, Red.

Oh, don't mind me. I'm all right.

It makes me feel terrible

to see you cry like that.

Well, can't a girl cry a little bit

when she's happy?

Now, Red, there's no use

in taking this too seriously.

Seriously? Why, Mr. Legendre.

You're all I've been able

to think about for years.

You've only been working

in the office for two months.

-And you don't know why I came there?

-No.

Well, it wasn't because I wanted a job.

It's because I've been crazy about you

from a distance ever since I was a kid.

-You don't mean that, Red.

-Yes.

-Really?

-And these months in the office...

...have been wonderful.

Why, gee, I can remember

every word you've spoken to me.

-Every look.

-Great Scott.

Have you been mooning around

with that nonsense in your mind?

-Please don't make fun of it.

-I'm not making fun of it, Red.

-But you've got to snap out of it, that's all.

-Listen to me.

I'm on your mind

just as much as you're on mine.

-What do you mean?

-Why, when we're at the office...

...and you send for me to take a letter,

do you know what happens?

-No.

-Before you even begin...

...you look me over, all over.

-No, do I do that, Red?

-Yes.

And when I came here

to bring you the mail...

...it was just like fate and I was

glad of it. I was glad of it.

Now, listen, Red.

-Red, this can't go on.

-But why?

I love my wife.

I've never loved anybody else.

We've been sweethearts

since we were kids.

Yes, but she doesn't need

to know about us.

It's no use, Red.

I won't go for that sort of thing.

And besides, she gets back tomorrow.

-So we can't see each other again.

-Don't say that, Bill.

Red, I mean it. We're through, finished.

It's got to be. There's no other way.

All right.

If that's the way you want it, Bill,

I guess I can take it.

Where's my shoe?

But I can stay on at the office, can't I?

Promise to behave yourself, Red?

All right, we'll see.

Great guns, where did you get that?

Oh, I cut that picture out of a photograph.

Do you like it?

Well, let's hope you don't get caught

in an automobile accident or something.

-I'll take that drink now.

-Oh, sure.

Well, one more drink and

I'll go back where I belong.

-Across the rail road tracks.

-Oh, forget it, Red.

Bill, let's dance, huh?

Sure.

Bill?

This is our last dance.

That's right.

You have the reddest hair I've ever seen.

It's funny Bill doesn't answer.

He's probably out

losing his shirt at poker.

-You do think of the cutest things.

-I know Bill.

I haven't been his old Aunt Jane

all these years for nothing.

Try it again, operator.

One-ten, please.

-All right. Thank you.

-Oh, come along, come along, Irene.

You know, we have to hunt up

a place to sleep tonight.

Say, it's such a lovely night.

Let's drive right through, huh?

Don't be ridiculous.

Bill will keep until tomorrow.

-Come on. It'll be fun to surprise him.

-Yes, it will.

Husbands just love being surprised.

Here, wait a minute.

I haven't got my change yet.

You know, I surprised your uncle once.

Ancl it gave me enough material

to blackmail him for ten years.

Aunt Jane, don't be so cynical.

It's very depressing at this hour

of the night.

Can you stay awake

long enough to drive home?

I can drive this thing in my sleep, dear.

I'll send for my big bag tomorrow.

-All right. Goodnight, dear.

-Goodnight, darling. It was a grand trip.

Rene, is there any...?

In---

I wish you'd try

to understand this. Will you?

I might have understood

if it hadn't been a girl like that.

Well, that's just it.

Sometimes...

Sometimes it is a girl like that, that...

How long have you known her?

Oh, a few weeks.

She's been around the office,

getting in my way.

-I ought to have known better.

-it's been going on then for weeks?

No, it began tonight...

...and it'll end tonight. I swear it.

Don't you believe me?

I don't know what to believe.

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