:15:00
I'll make
a direct statement.
:15:02
All right,
you asked for it.
:15:04
I wouldn't.
:15:07
Will you please stop dawdling
with that infernal puzzle?
:15:10
- It's getting on my nerves.
- I know, but it keeps me calm.
:15:14
Okay, let's go.
:15:32
This was our table-
:15:34
Laura's and mine.
:15:37
We spent many quiet evenings
here together.
:15:42
I remember we dined here the night
before her 22nd birthday.
:15:46
Just we two-
:15:48
happy, making plans
for her future.
:15:54
- Good luck.
But this was a far cry...
:15:57
from the girl who walked into my life
at the Algonquin Hotel five years before.
:16:03
Pardon me.
Excuse me.
:16:07
Excuse me.
:16:18
Mr. Lydecker,
how do you do?
:16:21
My name is Laura Hunt,
and I'm with Bullitt and Company.
:16:25
You know,
the big advertising firm.
:16:27
And I'd like to talk
something over with you, if I may.
:16:30
You can hardly fail to realize that
I am engaged in eating my lunch.
:16:35
Yes, I know. I'm awfully sorry
to interrupt this way...
:16:39
but it's so hard to get to see you
the regular way, and...
:16:42
this will only
take a minute, really.
:16:47
- Now, this is-
- Young woman...
:16:49
either you have been raised
in some incredibly rustic community...
:16:53
where good manners
are unknown...
:16:55
or you suffer from the common
feminine delusion...
:16:58
that the mere fact
ofbeing a woman...