- Office Boy: This is General Retailers, Cuttlebury.
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- Office Boy: Eh?
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- Office Boy: Eh?
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- Office Boy: Mr Penny's office? Yes.
- [pause]
- Office Boy: Eh?
- [pause]
- Office Boy: Eh?
- [pause]
- Office Boy: Eh?
- Mr. Penny: Don't keep saying "A" like that. Use another letter occasionally.
- Office Boy: Oh.
- Mr. Penny: That's better. What do they want?
- Office Boy: You.
- Mr. Penny: I? Why?
- Mr. Penny: Don't argue with me. Attend to your job. What are you supposed to be doing?
- Office Boy: Sticking these bits of paper into this here book.
- Mr. Penny: Oh. What are they?
- Office Boy: I don't know. I thought you did.
- Mr. Penny: Don't be impertinent. Of course I do.
- [Addresses secretary]
- Mr. Penny: What are all these things he's got here, Miss Corker?
- Secretary: I suppose they're entries for the ledger.
- Mr. Penny: Don't be absurd. The Leger was run last month.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: I don't object to your keeping company with somebody decent.
- Louise: No, no, no. I want to keep company only with you.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: I didn't know you'd be free tonight. I'd have bet ten to one you had a date with some Willy.
- Louise: So! You will bet like this on my Willy, but if you find me with some poor Willy, you boot him!
- Sir Duncan Craggs: A woman like you shouldn't want Willys.
- Louise: No, but a man like you should want Trixies, is it?
- Sir Duncan Craggs: Certainly. The more he sees of them, the more he appreciates his wife.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: You've got to the stage where your friends ought to be your own age, sex, and size.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: I've always been a loving husband to you, Heaven knows.
- Louise: Oh, make no mistake, Heaven does not know much about you. The angels are not permitted to listen to that sort of thing.
- Trixie Merritt: You know, poor Father and Mother think I'm still a kid.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: I'm glad to hear that. I believe in children keeping their parents as innocent as possible.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: Do you know the disreputable kind of people who go there?
- Mr. Penny: Well, I've often been there.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: Have you? I've never seen you.
- Louise Craggs: Oh Duncan, dear, think what it means. I am what you call bigamist.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: Now, honey, don't cry darling. It can't be helped. Only another time, make sure your husband IS dead.
- Louise Craggs: It shall be better next time. You shall tell me the truth.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: It shall be better next time if you're not so nosey.
- Louise Craggs: [having listened in on a phone message for Duncan] This young man had a very high voice.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: Yes. He's a choir boy.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: Oh, rubbish. You don't kidnap ladies in England. You don't have to.
- Mr. Raymond Penny: Perhaps she's being blackmailed.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: How dare you suggest that my wife's done anything that she could be blackmailed about.
- Mr. Raymond Penny: Ah, but perhaps she's being blackmailed by somebody who's found out something you've done.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: Good lord, I never thought of that. Come on, get a taxi.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: Well done, George.
- Waiter, George: Thank you, Mr. Duncan.
- Sir Duncan Craggs: [handing him a tip] Buy yourself a motor car.