Barnett Parker: Primrose

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• Primrose : The young lady's familiarity with the byways of legal entanglements, might prove a tremendous value to us.

  Michael Royce : What do you mean?

  Primrose : We might employ her to keep us out of trouble.

  Judy Nash : Oh, no. Not me! I'm no magician. Besides, The Tribune pays me 50 bucks a week to write stories about people like you.

  Michael Royce : Say, a 150 a week?

  Judy Nash : Dollars? Gosh!

• Michael Royce : I know she saves me money; but, what good is it? I can't work. I can't write! I can't think. I can't do anything!

  Primrose : Catastrophic, sir. Catastrophic.

  Michael Royce : How can I do a brilliant play when I'm surround by such stillness! Nobody inspires me! Nobody!

  Primrose : Perhaps a spot of Beethoven might do the trick, sir? Might'in it?

  Michael Royce : No music, Primrose, thank you. Oh, you're doing your best. You've been like a comfortable old shoe. But, what I need is a dashing silver slipper with a high French heel! - Not a bad line, that is!

• Primrose : I beg pardon, sir. But, might not one consider Miss Nash a dashing silver slipper?

  Michael Royce : Nash? That emotional iceberg? No. There's no dash about Nash.

• Primrose : Sir, has it occurred to you that beneath that business like exterior, there vibrates a romantic soul?

  Michael Royce : Nonsense, Primrose. What would she look like in an evening gown? - - What *would* she look like in an evening gown?