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of a paper you like.

I'll even promise

never to see her again.

How do you like that,

Miss Alden?

How would you like never

to see your baby again?

There's some mistake,

Miss Trent.

I've never had a baby.

That's too bad.

It might do you some good!

It might soften you a bit!

Oh, no, no!

No, no, I'm sorry! I'm...

That's not what I

meant to say at all.

Please forgive me! Please!

And say you will take her.

I'm sorry, Miss Trent,

but I'm not interested.

Have you exhausted

every possibility?

Yeah, I even did that.

Well?

She wasn't interested.

Baby.

What became of Dora?

Baby.

Dora was swell to me,

but she lost her job,

and she decided to marry

a boy from out West.

Dora's the kind of girl that

some guy always wants to marry.

I get a lot of

proposals, too,

but marriage

isn't one of them.

I'm sorry.

Well, kid,

I'll be a seeing you.

Baby.

Sally, you understand

that if you give up your baby

it will be

completely and forever.

Sure I do!

Let's get it over with!

I'll go and get the papers

ready for you to sign.

I haven't been much

good to you, have I?

Maybe you...

Maybe you'll take a mother's

advice before she goes.

You might as well.

That's all she's

got to give you.

Don't ever let any man

make a sucker out of you.

Make them know

what you're worth.

Anything they get for nothing

is always cheap.

There's just

one thing, Mother.

Would you fix it so her name

will always be Sally?

It's sort of... It's sort of silly not

to know your own kid's name, isn't it?

Of course, my dear.

I promise.

Is that all?

That's all.

Baby. Baby.

I only know

That I can't go on, darling

And here lies love

Well, Miss Benton...

You don't have to say it.

I was terrible.

No, no, no.

Your voice is okay.

What you need is experience.

What kind of experience?

Well, you know, see something

of life, learn how to suffer.

A woman must suffer much

before she can sing a little.

I see.

Come back to me

in about a year.

All right.

In the meantime,

watch me suffer.

It's a long dark night

Come on home, Daddy

'Cause I'm lonely and blue

You know I worry, Daddy

Won't you hurry?

Mama's waiting for you

Now you know it ain't right

To fool me, baby

'Cause I'm faithful and true

And I won't struggle

If you want to snuggle

Dear, I'm waiting for you

Although you've

kept me yearning

I hope my yearning is through

I've kept those

home fires burning

So give your devil her due

Come and hold me tight

You great big baddie

And do, do like you do

It's, oh, so cold out

I can hardly hold out

Still I'm waiting for you

Miss Benton,

you are marvelous!

So you think I've

suffered enough, do you?

Waiter, bring me

a telephone, please.

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