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- Lucy...

...he didn't come to see me.

Honestly, he didn't.

Well, he sure won't stay to see you

in that condition.

Come on, boy.

And that way, tetradite can be

in general use all over the world...

...in a matter of months

instead of years.

I'll go still further.

I guarantee to manufacture it at a price

that'll stop it from being unfairly sold...

...or exploited to the public

by anyone else.

Oh, Ann, dear. Mr. Garroway.

- My daughter.

- Miss Hamilton.

How do you do?

How do you do?

I'm sorry. I've been cleaning.

- I hope you'll forgive me for barging in.

- I'm the one who's barged...

You're going after

the Regent Chemical Plant?

- I understand it's the best.

- It should be all set by now.

My manager, Mr. Warmsley,

is in Washington now.

- He came on for the negotiations.

- What is this? What's it all about?

Oh, I'm sorry, Ann. Here, take a look.

You know I can't read those blueprints.

What's going on here?

I'm turning tetradite over

to Mr. Garroway, Ann.

It's all here. Quick, practical, cheap.

We'll be underway in a month, you say?

I guarantee it, sir.

You were very confident, Mr. Garroway.

I think "presumptuous" is the word

you'd like to use, isn't it?

Well, maybe.

- Dinner will be ready in 10 minutes.

- Dinner?

- Yes. You know, dinner.

- It's nearly 7:
00. I'm terribly sorry.

I'm not. You will join us, of course.

- Of course.

- You gentlemen have some sherry...

...while Miss Hamilton

changes for dinner.

Oh, but I...

Yes, naturally. I won't be a minute.

Sure you wouldn't prefer a cocktail?

No. No, thank you very much.

- Your mother?

- Yes.

She died three years ago.

What a sweet-Iooking face.

She was sweet, all right.

She was a scientist too...

...as good a one as dad, and a dynamo.

Mine was just the opposite.

Mother was an invalid for years.

Whenever it snowed, she always said

that's what she missed:

Walking in the snow.

Why am I talking like this?

I hate being sentimental.

- I like it.

- I think I knew you would.

Is that why, Ann?

Am I trying to please you?

Whether you're trying or not, you are.

Mr. Garroway, I was wondering...

...were you surprised when I...?

When we...?

- Met?

- Yes. Did I remind you of someone?

No. Whatever put that idea in your head?

Quite the opposite.

You look like no one

I'd ever seen before.

That would be it. Someone you'd never

seen before and given up trying to find.

It's quite a shock.

Rummy, mind your manners.

One of the tragedies of my life.

Dogs don't seem to care for me.

- It's a sign of bad character.

- Oh, Rummy's a fine one to talk.

He has no character at all, lazy little...

Eats tetradite. Steals it and eats it.

I've got a dog in Virginia, boy,

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