:17:00
I'd rather get fired
than face that old battle ax.
:17:03
Yes, but what about me?
:17:05
Remember, I have a wife
and a family to support.
:17:07
You're not gonna let me down
after all I've done for you?
:17:10
Oh, all right. I'll go.
:17:12
Let's see, whooping cough
or maybe scarlet fever.
:17:16
- It's a better color for Christmas.
- Anything. Only call off the sailor.
:17:19
Now if you put this over,
I'll get a raise for you. I swear I will.
:17:23
The things a girl will do for a mink coat.
:17:26
Come in.
:17:28
- Well, here I am.
- Hello, John.
:17:31
An hour early,
but the early bird catches the worm.
:17:33
- Thanks.
- Don't mention it.
:17:35
Why are you so early?
:17:36
I took an earlier train.
That much longer to be with you.
:17:39
Sloan, go away. We're in conference.
:17:41
Don't mind Dud today.
We're in a little trouble.
:17:43
If there's anything I can do for you...
:17:45
...just say the word.
You know how I feel.
:17:47
No. How do you feel?
:17:49
Tell us all about it. Say "ah."
:17:51
Say, what is this?
:17:52
Go and build those rabbit hutches
or whatever it is you build.
:17:56
Multiple dwellings.
:17:57
And I don't build them. I'm an architect.
:17:59
Go and be it, then. All you want
to do is to propose to Liz again.
:18:02
- I'll do it for you and get a no for you.
- Now, look here, Liz.
:18:05
Don't waste time. You have to decide
what you're gonna say to the old man.
:18:09
- What old man?
- It's Yardley.
:18:10
- He's sending me a sailor for Christmas.
- Oh, how nice.
:18:13
A sailor? Really, Elizabeth.
:18:15
It's just a little trouble we're in.
Yardley thinks I have a farm...
:18:18
...a husband and a baby in Connecticut.
- A farm, a husband and a baby.
:18:22
Simple, isn't it?
:18:23
Well, there's obviously only one thing
for you to do.
:18:26
Sloan, keep out of this.
:18:27
I've taken as much
as I'm going to take from you.
:18:30
Boys, please, stop quarreling.
:18:31
Come in.
:18:33
- Mrs. Lane?
- Oh, yes. Put it in there.
:18:36
Oh, Dud, I wish you'd tell the office
to stop sending those things here.
:18:42
- Another rocking chair?
- Yes.
:18:43
- You already have eight.
- Thirty-eight. The rest are in the basement.
:18:46
Thirty-eight rocking chairs?
:18:48
I said last month I was searching
in vain through antique shops...
:18:51
...for a rocking chair like Granny had.
My public is sending me rocking chairs.
:18:55
And that proves how popular you are.
:18:57
If you get fired, you'll rob the public
of the finest human-interest feature...