:23:01
Got something to say,
:23:03
and I'd just as soon
nobody heard it.
:23:05
Why? Something wrong?
:23:07
Russell is selling
the house.
:23:09
I'm high and dry.
:23:11
Well, now, that's
kind of sudden, ain't it?
:23:13
It's his house
and my luck.
:23:15
If you're hurting for money,
I can let you have a little.
:23:18
You can let me have
more than that.
:23:20
- Like what?
- Make an honest woman out of me.
:23:23
Come on, Jess.
You're already that.
:23:25
Now, don't hedge.
I need an answer.
:23:28
You appear to be it.
:23:29
That's a hell of a romantic
way of looking at it.
:23:33
You could do a lot worse.
:23:35
I don't turn your pants
pockets inside out.
:23:37
I don't say no
in the middle of the night.
:23:40
When you got the stomachache, I'm
ready with the bicarbonate of soda.
:23:44
When you get a cold, I'm the one
who brings up the croup kettle.
:23:48
I know I'm not 20,
but that's not too bad.
:23:51
Over the years, I have learned
to control my temper.
:23:54
All that's true.
:23:56
So? Yes or no?
:24:03
Not a chance.
:24:06
Well...
:24:08
I've gone this far.
:24:09
So if it's not
too undignified to ask,
:24:13
why not?
:24:16
Jessie, you could be the Queen
of Sheba with a rose in your teeth,
:24:19
you could be Velvet-skin Annie
out of a Frisco hook shop,
:24:23
the answer
would still be "no."
:24:25
You got me in pretty
classy company anyhow.
:24:28
I been working since
I was ten years old,
:24:30
cleaning spittoons
at a dime a day.
:24:32
It's now 30 years later and
all I can see out the window
:24:34
is a dirt road
going nowhere.
:24:36
The only thing
that changes the view
:24:39
is the spotted dog lifting his leg
against the wall over there.
:24:42
Saturday nights,
I haul in the town drunks.
:24:44
I get their 25-cent dinners
and their rotgut liquor
:24:48
heaved up over the front
of my one good shirt.
:24:50
I wear three pounds of iron
strapped to my leg.
:24:54
That makes me fair game
for any punk cowboy
:24:56
who's had one too many.
:24:58
No, Jess.
I don't need a wife.