His Girl Friday Page #6

BURNS:

(slyly)

Maybe it was yesterday. Been seeing

me in your dreams?

MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT THE TWO

HILDY:

(casually)

No -- Mama doesn't dream about you

any more, Walter. You wouldn't know

the old girl now.

BURNS:

(with conviction)

Oh, yes I would. I'd know you any

time --

He grows lyrical and, rising from his seat, is about to start

toward her, as he continues:

BURNS AND HILDY:

(together)

-- any place, anywhere --

He sits.

HILDY:

(half-pityingly)

You're repeating yourself! That's

the speech you made the night you

proposed.

(she burlesques his

fervor)

"-- any time -- any place --

anywhere!"

CLOSE SHOT HILDY AND BURNS

BURNS:

(growling)

I notice you still remember it.

HILDY:

I'll always remember it. If I hadn't

remembered it, I wouldn't have

divorced you.

BURNS:

You know, Hildy, I sort of wish you

hadn't done it.

HILDY:

Done what?

BURNS:

Divorced me. It sort of makes a fellow

lose faith in himself. It almost

gives him a feeling he wasn't wanted.

HILDY:

Holy mackerel! Look, Walter, that's

what divorces are for.

BURNS:

Nonsense. You've got the old-fashioned

idea that divorces are something

that last forever -- till 'death us

do part'. Why, a divorce doesn't

mean anything today. It's only a few

words mumbled over you by a judge.

We've got something between us nothing

can change.

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