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into some orphanage.

You're tired. You've been cooped up with

the same people for a couple of weeks now.

All of a sudden you see

the bright, shining faces...

of these unwanted children,

and you catch on fire.

Next thing I know, you arrive here

in a beat-up old jalopy...

- you bang into my Cadillac-

- That's the only way I could stop.

I told you that before.

The car had no brakes.

Now, let's get to it.

What red tape do we have to cut?

Jervis, even you cannot go leaping about

from country to country adopting orphans.

I am not leaping about.

It's only one country and one orphan.

Will you please stop stalling

and get started?

- All right, Jervis, we can try.

- Try? Don't give me that.

- Any time the American ambassador can't-

- Okay, okay.

Now, what's the name

of the orphanage?

Uh, Jeanne d'Arc,

right outside Soissons.

- And the child's name?

- Julie Andre.

A-N-D-R-E.

- Do you know how old she is?

- Yes. Eighteen.

- Let's have another martini.

- Oh, Alec.

- Oh, Jervis!

- Now, if you're gonna take that attitude...

- we won't get anyplace.

- Mm-hmm.

Tell me, has she

got a friend?

This girl has

a gift for life.

I want to send her to America.

I want to educate her.

You can't adopt an 18-year-old girl.

You can't ask me-

They have a name for what

you're asking me to do.

That is narrow-minded,

bigoted and evil.

Jervis, have you any idea how easy it is to lose

a job at the State Department these days?

- But my motives are as pure as-

- Just a moment, Jervis. I, uh-

I think the ambassador fears

that if the press hear about this...

they might conceivably place

a different interpretation...

upon your motives,

however pure in fact they may be.

- Thank you, Griggs.

- Yeah.

Mm-hmm, fair point.

Uh, I have it.

The entire thing

can be done anonymously...

uh, like

a scholarship fund.

There'll be absolutely no contact

between the girl and myself.

She won't even know who I am.

The Pendleton Foundation...

gives lots of scholarships

to American boys and girls.

Why not to this girl?

Why not?

- I don't know why not.

- Well?

But, of course, you're not really

adopting her in this case...

- you're merely sponsoring her.

- Right.

But you want to send her to college.

How do we know she'll qualify?

Qualify. Um-

I'm on the board of trustees...

of, uh, some institution

of learning for young ladies.

- W-W-Which one is it, Griggs?

- Walston College in Massachusetts.

What makes you think

they'll take her?

Uh, what was our

contribution last year?

Sizable.

She is now

an enrolled member...

of the freshman class

of Walston College in Massachusetts.

Here, start writing.

Now, uh, where were we?

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