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- Yes, my... My friend and teacher.

You speak so beautifully,

and I know I speak so nondescript-ly...

...but could you...?

Would you...?

I want to ask you if you'll give me

a lesson every day right off.

- But l...

- I want to pay.

Not at once, because I've only

money enough for a certain length of time.

But I'd planned to go to the best teacher

I could find and arrange to pay later.

I should have to find someone

who believed in me unequivably.

- What?

- Unequivably.

Do you mean unequivocally?

Yes, that's it.

You see, those are the sort of things

I've got to learn.

Won't you give me a lesson

and let me pay you later?

- But l...

- You see, I want the best or nothing.

I'll pay for it.

And every time I'll give you an IOU.

You know, "I owe Robert Harley Hedges,"

and the date.

And then when I begin to make money,

I'll begin to buy back the slips of paper.

- When may I have a regular lesson? Today?

- But I live a way uptown...

...and my place is not exactly a studio.

Oh, that doesn't matter so long as

it's quiet, and we can sit and smoke.

I smoke, of course.

Though in Franklin, it still isn't done

in the best families.

They're very bourgeois in Franklin

and provincial.

The soul has no liberty in such a place.

Why, in Franklin, my family wouldn't

have permitted Shakespeare himself...

...to call on me

because he was a married man.

Now, Gwendoline,

I'd like to have you play this part.

Look it over.

But remember what I told you,

for your own good, no drinking.

- Let that bottle alone in business.

- I know.

Mr. Easton, it won't occur again.

That was an accident.

- It was my ex-husband's birthday and...

- I know.

Well, you know

how those things happen.

- All right, Gwendoline.

- Goodbye.

- Be careful.

- I shall.

I'll mull over these lines tonight, although

it's not the best part I've ever played.

I understand, dear.

Rehearsals will be Tuesday.

- Never mind. Goodbye, Will.

- Goodbye, Miss Hall.

- Well, Rita.

- Gwendoline, my sweet.

My dear,

it's so nice seeing you again.

Yes, it's so nice to see you too.

My, you're gaining weight.

Yes. I'll soon be your size, my dear.

Tell me, are you going to be

in the play?

Well, they want me, so I've consented

to read the part over tonight.

Well, it'll be so nice

to have you in my company again.

- Well, don't let it throw you.

- No, I won't.

- Goodbye, dear.

- Goodbye. Goodbye.

- Call me up. I'm at the Ritz.

- I shall. You must come and have tea.

Yes, you bet I will. I'd love to.

Did you ever hear such nerve

in all of your life? That silly...

Come into my office

and tell me your troubles.

- Yes, a lot of good that will do.

- Now, now, now, be a good girl.

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