- Doctor: Haven't you brought enough unhappiness to your husband without jeopardizing his life?
- Lola Davis Hayes: I...?
- Doctor: Let me give you a little advice. One way or another, a man will find a woman to look out for him not only when he's sick but when he's well. That's something you so-called "modern girls" never seem to count on. You talk about freedom, because you think it's something men have and cherish. But they don't. They hate it. They get along best when they're *not* free. It's human nature, that's all. They need old-fashioned women looking after their health, nagging them into caution, feeding them properly, and giving them families to live for. A great many of these women are just as well-fitted for business as you are, but they don't want it. They put their talents to work instead in what people today think of as a narrow sphere. Well, I don't think it's narrow. I think it's the most important sphere of all. Not much recognition in it, perhaps--no spectacular publicity--but it's built up nations before now, and it *will* build them again.
- Mrs. Davis: You hear that, Lola?
- Agnes Davis: Now, listen Jim, she's in love with that boy and there's no reason on earth why she shouldn't have him.
- Jim Davis: He hasn't any money, for one thing.
- Agnes Davis: Well, neither have *you*.
- Agnes Davis: I don't suppose he earns more than $40 a week.
- Mr. Davis: $40 a week? When I married your mother I was getting $15 a week.
- Mrs. Davis: Oh, that was then dear. Just the same, I do think young people today are extravagant. I dare say, you and Jim could manage very well, even if you didn't work, Agnes.
- Jim Davis: We'd manage a darn sight better, Mother, and that's the truth.
- Agnes Davis: Yes. I could spend all day taking care of the darn house for you. Cooking your meals and washing your dishes and thinking how *marvelous* it'll be when you get home at night. We couldn't ever go anywhere because we couldn't afford it. You'd know just where I was and just what I was doing all the time. We'd see so much of one another, we couldn't possibly like each other. It would be indecent - like not wearing any clothes.
- Ken Hayes: A man doesn't like his wife working in an office. He wants to work for her. He wants her waiting for him when he gets home .
- Jim Davis: Looks like the boy got loose.
- Agnes Davis: Well, I dare say, Lola could have him if she wanted to.
- Jim Davis: If she's anything like you she could.
- Lola Davis: Oh, what's the use, Connie. Things never happen the way you want them to.
- Connie: But it doesn't hurt to think about them once in awhile, does it?
- Lola Davis: Sometimes it does hurt - terribly.
- Lola Davis: Now, honestly, Agnes, do you think any person with any sense at all would fall for a deliberate trap like that?
- Agnes Davis: Oh, honey bunch, hundreds of thousands of them fall for it every year.
- Jim Davis: What do we have for breakfast? Mush. What do we have for lunch? Beans. What do we have for dinner? Anything that lives in a can.
- Lola Davis Hayes: Gee, with Ken's 40 and my 40 we'll have 80. At least we won't have to worry about the radio payments - and we can have a cleaning woman.
- Connie: Gee, that's *swell*, Lola.
- Ken Hayes: [phone rings] Say, if that's your boyfriend, tell him that you slipped on a cake of soap, will you?
- Lola Davis: No, that'd never do. He might want to pick me up.
- Lola Davis Hayes: I got a raise today.
- Ken Hayes: Well, so you got a raise.
- Lola Davis Hayes: Isn't that swell?
- Ken Hayes: Yeah. You'll be wearing the pants from now on, I suppose.
- Lola Davis Hayes: Ken, do you think that's nice?
- Ken Hayes: Well, it's the truth, isn't it? You'll be earning more than I will.
- Lola Davis Hayes: Well, what of it?
- Ken Hayes: Oh, nothing, I guess. Anything goes these days.
- Lola Davis Hayes: [in bed, kiss] Morning. Morning, precious.
- [kiss]
- Ken Hayes: Mmm. Morning.
- [kiss, kiss-kiss-kiss]
- Lola Davis Hayes: Ah. Ah-ah-ah. You better get up, honey. You were late for work yesterday morning.
- Joe: If I had my way, I'd have the the whole lot and bunch of you in a sweat shop. I'd make you work so hard you'd be cryin' for a kitchen and a few babies to take care of - just for a vacation.
- Lola Davis Hayes: You've just been a poor sport about everything, that's all. You do nothing but complain and drink and lose your job. Now, when I have a chance to make a little money, you want me to quit. For what? Will you tell me that?
- Ken Hayes: Remember this, I had a break once too. A big break with a big future. But, I didn't take it, did I? Well, I gave it up like a fool because I thought you wanted to get married and be a real wife and stick with me. Well, it's clear now. You care more for your rotten job than you do for me. Go to it, kid! Have a swell time! I'm through!
- Ken Hayes: A fellow can't even have a good time anymore without getting into trouble.
- Lola Davis Hayes: Well, you didn't have to get drunk.
- Ken Hayes: Why shouldn't I? I give up everything for a wife and a home and what do I get? A woman to live with and a lot of dirty dishes.
- Lola Davis Hayes: But surely you can't expect that boys would know anything about nursing.
- Mrs. Davis: Oh, I don't know, Lola. I give up. In my day, a man had his wife to look after him when he was sick.
- Shirley: Don't worry about me. I'll get along. I kinda like this guy of your's. But, what's the difference? He's not the only bozo on the block.
- Lola Davis Hayes: We could spend the Fall in the Dolomites and the Winter in Rome. You'd love Rome.
- Lola Davis Hayes: They tell me they have lots of flies there.
- Lola Davis Hayes: I'll buy you a swatter.
- Lola Davis Hayes: But you don't understand. I like being independent.
- Lola Davis Hayes: Because you're not in love, that's why.
- Lola Davis Hayes: You think so?
- Lola Davis Hayes: Gosh, If I - if I could only make you realize...
- Lola Davis Hayes: I understand, Peter. You're simply *mad* about me.
- Agnes Davis: Lola, give up anything. It doesn't matter. The man you love is worth all the jobs in the world. We found that out, didn't we?