- President of the Purity League: Mr. Mason? Miss Winton? What on earth? What's going on
- Marge Winton: Oh, just the usual office routine. Mr. Mason was giving me dictation. But, he was a little too fast!
- Purity League Manager: Miss Winton choose to misunderstand purely a friendly gesture.
- President of the Purity League: Miss Winton this is disgraceful! I'm sure Mr. Mason meant no harm.
- Sadie Day: Do you mean to say you've been fired again? Well, I thought this Mr. Mason liked you so much that he...
- Marge Winton: So much that I had to throw two five-pound books at him to keep him away.
- Sadie Day: Five-pound - ? What did he do?
- Marge Winton: Oh, he started to show me a few new handies. But, after the first, I told him to stop.
- [wink]
- Marge Winton: I could guess the rest.
- Sadie Day: Oh, ain't men terrible. Though, I must confess that my boss certainly behaves like a gentlemen to me - darn it.
- Marge Winton: [Reading a wanted ad] Stenographer wanted for a Henderson, Barton & Lowell.
- Sadie Day: What's their business?
- Marge Winton: It says they're importers of spices, seeds, oil and sardines.
- Sadie Day: Sardines? That sure sounds romantic.
- Marge Winton: I don't want romance. All I want is a job!
- Lowell: I was wondering if you mind staying on for an hour or so. I'd like to go over the Driskill Sardine statement.
- Marge Winton: Why, you okayed it this morning. I mailed it out with the banana oil contracts.
- Lowell: Oh, did I? It must have slipped my mind. Well, anyway, I'd like you to stay on. There's a few things I'd like to go over with you.
- Marge Winton: Well, I was planning to go out for dinner.
- Lowell: There's no reason we can't have dinner up here.
- Marge Winton: Oh, but, I...
- Lowell: I'll give you a buzz in a few minutes.
- Marge Winton: Yes, Mr. Lowell.
- Barton: I have a few letters I want to get out. Do you mind staying on for an hour or so?
- Marge Winton: I'm awfully sorry, but, Mr. Lowell asked me to do some work for him.
- Barton: Mr. Lowell happens to be the second Vice President. I come first.
- Marge Winton: Yes, Mr. Barton.
- Henderson: Miss Winton, Marge, you look like a nice, understanding girl.
- Marge Winton: I know. Your wife's out of town for a few days and you're lonesome.
- Henderson: How did you know?
- Marge Winton: Oh, just because I'm so understanding.
- Sadie Day: Howdy, pal! Well, how's the new job?
- Marge Winton: It was fine.
- Sadie Day: Was fine? What happened this time?
- Marge Winton: Oh, you know the old proverb: Too many bosses spoil the stenographer.
- Freddy Matthews: [describing the plot of his new book to Camille] So, when she refused to marry him, why, he got a job on a ukulele ranch down in Honolulu. You know, breaking in wild ukuleles.
- Marge Winton: Say, how about me?
- Employment Clerk: You're not the type.
- Marge Winton: What do mean I'm not the type? I've had lots of experience. I know office routine upside down.
- Employment Clerk: Your face is against you.
- Marge Winton: What's wrong with it?
- Employment Clerk: Not a thing. That's just the point. The Belldon Publishing Company never hires good looking girls. This is one job were looks don't count.
- Jake Edgall: How's the little butter board?
- Sadie Day: Jake, have you been drinking?
- Jake Edgall: Why?
- Sadie Day: Because its the first time you've kissed me since the night I held your hand while you were getting tattooed.
- Sadie Day: Listen, I used to think you were a nitwit and that wasn't flattery.
- Jake Edgall: Well, what was it?
- Sadie Day: It was a tribute!
- Marge Winton: How do you do Mr. McCoy? Did I hear Jake say you were taking us all down to the beach? Say, won't that be marvelous! I've just been dying for one of those nice shore dinners. And then afterwards, we can go in the old mill. You know, the place were you ride around in little boats - in the dark.
- Jake Edgall: What's the idea Marge? Here, I've been built you up to my boss, tellin' him what a swell lookin' dame you are and out you come lookin' like a...
- Sadie Day: A passport picture.
- Marge Winton: The Belldon Publishing Company needs a girl - but, they want a homely one.
- Sadie Day: The boss' wife must run that office.
- Marge Winton: Oh, excuse me.
- Abbie Belldon: Well, come in.
- Marge Winton: I - wanted to see Mr. Belldon.
- Abbie Belldon: You're talking to him. Sit down.
- Abbie Belldon: It's about time you showed up. It's getting so, I have to stand over you writers like a policeman to make you get your stuff out on time. You're cheating on the little girls of America! Where are the last chapters of "The Motorcycle Girls in the Everglades"?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Oh, it's wonderful! I got them all, everyone of them on their motorcycles in the middle of the swamp. This is Chapter 12. And I got them up to there
- [hold hand under his chin]
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: - in water. But, I don't know how to get them out?
- Abbie Belldon: Have 'em swim out.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Yeah, but, what about the motorcycles? They can't swim!
- Abbie Belldon: Your next series will be - eh - "The Airplane Girls in Africa" - and pick a new name for yourself.
- [dismissingly]
- Abbie Belldon: 'Mabel DeCraven'.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Well, it was a toss up between that and Rosa Bell Heart. I kinda felt Rosa Bell Heart was too effeminate.
- Abbie Belldon: For the next series, pick a new pseudonym.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Prudence Parker?
- Abbie Belldon: No, not Prudence. Let me see?
- Marge Winton: Priscilla!
- Abbie Belldon: Excellent! How's it sound to you 'Mabel'?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: That's fine. Priscill - they might call me Prissy for short?
- Abbie Belldon: They won't. I'll make it a house rule.
- Abbie Belldon: It's Freddy Matthews, at last.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: That's fine. Now you can ball him out.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: For the love of Mike, Abbie. That's a dirty trick to play on Freddy!
- Abbie Belldon: What are you talking about?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: That girl!
- Abbie Belldon: What's the matter with her?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Everything! Sex takes a holiday. Freddy'll throw a fit. Imagine working all day in front of a face like that?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: I'd give anything to get a look at Freddy's face when he sees that comic valentine!
- Abbie Belldon: You listen to me, Freddy Matthews. On the strength of a 10-page synopis on what your story would be like, I sold the picture rights to Super Fine Pictures for $30,000! Have you overlooked that?
- Freddy Matthews: I haven't overlooked it. I've overdrawn it.
- Abbie Belldon: Exactly.
- Abbie Belldon: Unless your book is finished by the first of May...
- Freddy Matthews: You can't get blood out of a turnip.
- Abbie Belldon: Well, then, stop being a turnip and get to work!
- Marge Winton: Why, it's almost one o'clock.
- Freddy Matthews: Yes, just think of that. And in Siam it's only eight o'clock. Funny people, those Siamese. I've been up for hours and they're still sleeping.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: She decided that she would rather have marriage than a career. So, she went back to it.
- Marge Winton: Oh, that's a beautiful story, Mr. Matthews. I'm sure it will be a great success.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: It always has been.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: [dictating] Sylvia secretly watched Charles as he undressed before the open window. As he removed his shirt, revealing his bronze biceps, the wind ruffled his golden hair.
- Freddy Matthews: That typewriters taking plenty punishment.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: The typewriter and me both.
- Freddy Matthews: Been makin' you work?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: I don't mind. The quicker I finish this book, the sooner I'll get rid of her.
- Freddy Matthews: Not so good between paragraphs, huh?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: It has never occurred to me to try. She'll make somebody a good wife. Probably a blind man.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Miss Lansing will see that he's charmingly entertained at the Bayview.
- Marge Winton: The Bayview? Oh, goodness. Did I tell Mr. Matthews the Bayview?
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: You certainly did.
- Marge Winton: Oh, isn't that awful. I meant to tell him the St. George. Oh, I'm afraid you'll think I'm awfully stupid.
- 'Mabel' DeCraven: Yes, I do. Stupid like a fox.
- Camille Lansing: Why, the girl's jealous, of course. Just another little stenographer in love with her boss. You better quit reading those cheap magazine stories, Miss - whatever your name is.
- Marge Winton: Miss Lansing's jealousy is quite flattering. Goodbye, Mr. Matthews. If you decide you still want me to work for you, you know my address. Wire me. Goodbye, Miss - Miss - whatever your name is!
- Freddy Matthews: Women, women, women. Let this be a lesson to you, Alonzo. Once you rely on them, sooner or later, they'll drive you crazy.
- Alonzo: Yes, sir. It's an affliction I've often anticipated, sir.
- Sadie Day: What happened? I thought you were all set? You like the boss, the boss likes you. You told me the work was getting along so swell?
- Marge Winton: Yes, but, the boss has a girl.
- Sadie Day: Oh! I see. Marge, have you got a case on this guy?
- Marge Winton: Oh, don't be ridiculous. I've never thought about him twice in that way - eh - very much.
- Marge Winton: Say, what have you got for supper?
- Sadie Day: Oh, canned soup, canned corned beef hash, canned string beans and this bag has bananas.
- Marge Winton: What's the matter? Can't you find any canned bananas?
- Sadie Day: [doorbell rings] Oh, Marge, answer that, will you? It's probably Jake. He would come in while I'm making my toilette.
- Freddy Matthews: I know you.
- Marge Winton: You do?
- Freddy Matthews: Of course, you're the girl who dropped her bag that day in the cocktail bar and I picked up all those things.
- Marge Winton: Oh, was that you?
- Freddy Matthews: Yes, I guess I didn't make much of an impression, did I?
- Marge Winton: Well, you see, you were under the table most of the time.
- Sadie Day: Goodbye, Mr. Matthews. I hope you don't have too long a wait. But, you know how Marge is when she's out on one of her benders.
- Sadie Day: You can start practicing taking me out to dinner. Marge has company.
- Jake Edgall: Oh, I see. I ain't good enough for her swell friends, huh?
- Sadie Day: It's not that, Jake. Marge's boss is in there waiting for Marge.
- Jake Edgall: Ain't Marge home yet?
- Sadie Day: Yes, she's home; but, he doesn't know that she's Marge. That is, he doesn't know that Marge is his secretary.
- Jake Edgall: She's been workin' for him? Where's she been hiding? Under the typewriter?
- Sadie Day: No, stupid. He knows Marge is his secretary; but, what he doesn't know is the Marge is Marge!
- Jake Edgall: Holy cats! Who does he think she is?
- Sadie Day: Me!
- Jake Edgall: I'm going crazy!
- Sadie Day: Is that news? Come on!
- Freddy Matthews: Well, you know how she is, sort of stiff and proper.
- Marge Winton: Just a regular old maid, in fact.
- Freddy Matthews: Yes. But, she's a marvelous secretary and I need her badly.
- Marge Winton: I can imagine.
- Marge Winton: Perhaps you'd like to join me? Do you like canned corned beef hash?
- Freddy Matthews: No. However, I have a very good idea. Why don't you come out and have dinner with me?
- Marge Winton: Oh, but I couldn't do that.
- Freddy Matthews: Why not?
- Marge Winton: Well, I hardly know you.
- Freddy Matthews: You'll know be better after dinner.
- Equator Club Waiter: Will, Madame, have a demi-tasse?
- Sadie Day: Oh, yes, if you please.
- [waiter leaves]
- Jake Edgall: What's that?
- Sadie Day: Coffee, you lug. Coffee
- Jake Edgall: [looks at the menu] There! I knew it! Coffee - ten cents. A clip joint!
- Sadie Day: Jake, sometimes it appalls me the way you *throw* away money.
- Equator Club Singer: [singing] When I tell you I adore you, I'll admit it sounds naive, But love's a repetition of the same old story, Ever since Eve...
- Freddy Matthews: You - it's strange.
- Marge Winton: What?
- Freddy Matthews: I have a funny feeling that I am not I and you are not you.
- Marge Winton: Who do you think I am then?
- Freddy Matthews: We're two totally different people in a world of our own. A world that started a few hours ago. A world just for the two of us and nobody else.
- Freddy Matthews: I dislike brunettes. I dislike them! They make me moody. I like girls who are blonde and about five feet three and weigh about 112 pounds.
- Marge Winton: I get my dime back. I weigh 118.
- Freddy Matthews: Well, six more pounds to have and to hold.
- Marge Winton: Oh, Freddy, what delightful nonsense.
- Freddy Matthews: But before I go...
- Marge Winton: Yes.
- Freddy Matthews: There's something I want to say to you. Something that's going to be very difficult for me to say.
- Marge Winton: What's that?
- Freddy Matthews: Good night.
- Marge Winton: [laughs] Oh, you idiot! Good night.
- Abbie Belldon: How's the novel coming?
- Marge Winton: Well, to be frank, Miss Belldon, it was progressing quite nicely until last night.
- Abbie Belldon: Come on, tell me, women or liquor?
- Alonzo: I assure you Miss Camille, Mr. Matthews has gone away to work.
- Camille Lansing: Yes. What's her name?