The Office Wife (1930)

Blanche Friderici: Kate Halsey

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• Lawrence 'Larry' Fellowes, also spelled Fellows : You see that office building over there?

  Kate Halsey : It's an architectural monstrosity.

  Lawrence 'Larry' Fellowes, also spelled Fellows : In every office there's a stenographer.

  Kate Halsey : You called them potential mothers last time.

• Lawrence 'Larry' Fellowes, also spelled Fellows : How do you like this, "Most woman holding important business positions today have come up by the stenographer private secretary route."

  Kate Halsey : Ha, there's a long, long trail a winding.

  Lawrence 'Larry' Fellowes, also spelled Fellows : Now listen, "A man is propelled toward the woman he marries by emotion."

  Kate Halsey : The fool!

  Lawrence 'Larry' Fellowes, also spelled Fellows : "But his selection of a secretary is more careful and intelligent."

  Kate Halsey : Ha! Yes it is, I don't think. First he looks at her legs. Then, he smells her perfume. Then he stares at her face. And if he still admires her legs, he's sold.

  Lawrence 'Larry' Fellowes, also spelled Fellows : Behave. I'm serious.

  Kate Halsey : You mean, the modern business man's secretary is closer than his wife, yet, not his wife.