:16:12
Hi, Alec!
:16:20
Stop making noises like an ambassador,
"Alex," and answer the question.
:16:24
How do I go about
adopting a French orphan?
:16:26
Now, look, Jerv. You stumbled
into some orphanage.
:16:29
You're tired. You've been cooped up with
the same people for a couple of weeks now.
:16:32
All of a sudden you see
the bright, shining faces...
:16:35
of these unwanted children,
and you catch on fire.
:16:37
Next thing I know, you arrive here
in a beat-up old jalopy...
:16:39
- you bang into my Cadillac-
- That's the only way I could stop.
:16:42
I told you that before.
The car had no brakes.
:16:44
Now, let's get to it.
What red tape do we have to cut?
:16:48
Jervis, even you cannot go leaping about
from country to country adopting orphans.
:16:52
I am not leaping about.
It's only one country and one orphan.
:16:55
Will you please stop stalling
and get started?
:16:58
- All right, Jervis, we can try.
- Try? Don't give me that.
:17:01
- Any time the American ambassador can't-
- Okay, okay.
:17:04
Now, what's the name
of the orphanage?
:17:06
Uh, Jeanne d'Arc,
right outside Soissons.
:17:10
- And the child's name?
- Julie Andre.
:17:14
A-N-D-R-E.
:17:16
- Do you know how old she is?
- Yes. Eighteen.
:17:25
- Let's have another martini.
- Oh, Alec.
:17:27
- Oh, Jervis!
- Now, if you're gonna take that attitude...
:17:30
- we won't get anyplace.
- Mm-hmm.
:17:32
Tell me, has she
got a friend?
:17:34
This girl has
a gift for life.
:17:36
I want to send her to America.
I want to educate her.
:17:39
You can't adopt an 18-year-old girl.
You can't ask me-
:17:42
They have a name for what
you're asking me to do.
:17:45
That is narrow-minded,
bigoted and evil.
:17:48
Jervis, have you any idea how easy it is to lose
a job at the State Department these days?
:17:52
- But my motives are as pure as-
- Just a moment, Jervis. I, uh-
:17:55
I think the ambassador fears
that if the press hear about this...
:17:58
they might conceivably place
a different interpretation...