Made for Each Other

Sorry.

- Morning, Mr. Mason. - Good morning.

- Hello, Johnny. - Lovely morning.

- Hi, Johnny. - Beautiful morning.

- Morning, Mr. Mason. - Harry, it's a marvelous morning.

Have a nice trip? Sensational.

- Great city, Boston. - Terrific.

Happy bridegroom, yoo-hoo!

- How did you meet her, John? - Johnny, what's she like?

Wait a minute. I can't describe her. Nobody can.

But I happen to have a photograph of her here.

- Well, well, well. - Hello, Carter.

So you combined business with pleasure.

Wait till Judge Doolittle hears about this, my boy.

- About what? - About your getting married on his time...

without his consent, or his daughter's.

- What's she got to do with it? - The chief topic of conversation here...

- has been that you and Miss Doolittle... - Malarkey! Office talk, Carter.

- Isn't a word of truth in it. - Judge Doolittle may not think so.

Is that so? Well, if he doesn't like it, he can lump it.

Good morning, Judge Doolittle.

What's all this mess?

Well, it seems that everybody around here found out that I...

When I was up in Boston...

- What were you doing in Boston? - You sent me, sir.

You sent me up there to get a deposition on the Higgins v. Higgins case.

- Did you get it? - Yes, sir.

Well, what's all this horseplay?

While I was in Boston, after I got the deposition, I had a few hours to spare...

and so I...

- Just a few hours... - Go on.

I got married.

- You what? - I got married.

- You got married? - Yes, sir, I got married.

- Come into my office. - Yes, sir.

Where's the deposition?

There you are, sir.

What's this?

That's just sort of a letter.

- So you got married? - Yes, sir.

I imagine this will be a surprise to some people.

Yes, sir.

No, sir, I mean...

I don't know. It all happened rather suddenly.

We met on Boston Common the night I arrived.

I'd had a bite at Thompson's spa...

and then I took a little stroll around the Common...

and I saw her standing there.

She was just standing there.

She had a cinder in her eye.

- Where? - In her eye.

- Whose eye? - Jane's. Mrs. Mason, my wife.

Of course, she wasn't my wife then. She's my wife now, though.

I got the cinder out of her eye...

- And you married her. - Yes, sir.

- Quick work, wasn't it? - Yes, sir.

Judge, we knew the moment we looked at each...

We knew the moment we looked at each other.

- You did? - Yes, sir.

Last year, there were nearly half a million divorces in this country.

Congratulations, Mason.

Thank you very much, sir.

Mr. Hutch would like your opinion on this, sir.

This is for you, Mr. Mason. Special messenger.

It's marked, "Rush. Important."

Rush? Important? What is it?

- It's nothing. - What is it?

It's a letter from my wife.

Your wife? What did you do, leave her in Boston?

- No, she's right here, sir. - Here, in town?

Yes, sir.

If your wife's in town, why did she write you a letter?

She likes to write letters, Judge.

It's sort of a little custom we have.

She wrote me a letter the first day she met me...

right as soon as she got home.

She's written me one ever since.

Even coming down on the train together, she wrote me.

You see, when I get a letter from her...

it's sort of like a visit, you see.

Judge...

when two people get married, they usually go on a honeymoon.

I didn't. I don't approve of honeymoons. Waste of time.

Well, you know how women are, and Mrs. Mason and I...

What about Higgins v. Higgins?

You're the only one who knows this case. It's on the calendar for next week.

- If I could get a continuance... - Opposing counsel wouldn't consent.

But I talked to Mr. Hornblow this morning, and he agreed to a continuance.

Well, all right. Take a week.

A week?

Well, Judge, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to make it in a week.

What?

- We couldn't make it in a week. - Make what?

My wife and I had sort of planned a trip to Europe on the Normandie.

Take two weeks then.

And after I got the cinder out of Jane's eye...

we talked for a little while...

and then we took a little walk around the Commons.

Yes?

We walked for quite some time...

then we went over to Thompson's spa for a bite.

Yes?

And we had a bite.

Well, rather an unconventional meeting, wasn't it?

- These cookies are delicious. - They're made with sour cream.

- I'm crazy about sour cream. - I'm crazy about Jane.

- John is so young and impulsive. - Mother, wait a minute.

This is different.

Are you visiting relatives here in New York, my dear?

Yes and no. Not exactly.

- I came over with Johnny. - From Boston?

Together? Last night?

Yes, Mother.

We thought as long as we were engaged...

Engaged?

I know how upset you must be, Mrs. Mason.

You know so little about me, and it all happened so suddenly.

Well, I should think it was sudden.

- What did your family have to say about it? - I have no family.

Didn't John say something about your taking a course in journalism?

Yes, but I gave it up after I met Johnny.

I'm sort of a post-graduate course.

My dear, if you have a talent for writing...

take my advice and develop it while you're young.

One needs all one's time and energy for a career.

Don't you think marriage is a career in itself?

Indeed. Emphatically. That's why one mustn't rush into it pell-mell.

Marriage is a business, a very serious business.

A partnership, in the strictest sense of the word.

One must prepare for it.

There are so many things to learn.

Jane will learn all of those after we're married.

I hope and pray that that day will not come for many years.

Mother, what do you mean? Do you mean we shouldn't?

Emphatically not.

There's no reason for Jane to develop into a little household drudge.

I hope you understand, I have nothing against Jane.

In fact, I like her. I like her very much.

I'm glad you do, Mother, because...

You remember a little while ago you asked Jane...

whether she'd come to New York to visit relatives?

As a matter of fact, she has come to New York to visit...

She's visiting some right now. You see...

We're married.

Mother, everybody gets married sooner or later.

- Get the smelling salts. - What do they look like?

Mother, where are the smelling salts?

What's done is done.

You'll have children of your own, I suppose...

and you'll love them and devote your life to them.

Then they'll grow up and leave you, and you'll say to yourself:

"It's all right, that's the way it is."

"You've served your purpose."

Mother, don't excite yourself anymore.

I'm all right now.

I wish you every possible happiness and joy.

I think perhaps I'd better go to bed. I'm all right.

I'll find a place to live, of course.

Some place to live? Of course not, Mother. You'll stay with us.

We're going to find a new apartment. We've talked this all over.

- Jane will insist. Won't you, darling? - We couldn't think of anything else.

Well, we'll see.

See? I told you it would be all right.

Johnny, maybe we shouldn't have gotten married.

Maybe we shouldn't have gotten married at all.

All visitors ashore, please.

- Don't let him eat too many strawberries. - I won't.

He gets rashes.

Don't forget to make him wear his raincoat in London.

- I won't. - He had pneumonia once.

Mother, that was 12 years ago. I feel fine now.

- And take good care of yourself, too. - Goodbye, Mrs. Mason.

Take good care of him.

Goodbye, Mother.

Mother, it's only two weeks, you know.

- I know. Goodbye. - Goodbye.

- What's this? - The heating pad. You forgot to pack it.

Here it is.

What do you think of it?

- It's cozy. - It's the only one they had left.

- I think we can do better after the boat sails. - What for? I love it. It's so intimate.

- What's this? - That's nothing.

Is it something somebody gave you? I know, it's something for me!

- It is! Let me see it! - It's something I forgot to pack.

What are you being so mysterious about? Let me see it.

Really, it's nothing, Jane.

I bet it's a going away present. You can't fool me. You shouldn't have done this.

Johnny, you fool.

Gee whiz, I couldn't leave it in the office.

- What? - When I was in school, I was taught that...

two things can't occupy the same place at the same time.

What?

We'll get the steward to get us a bigger bed.

You couldn't get a bigger bed in here, though.

- I think it's big enough. - Wait till you try and turn round.

- Is it all right? - Sure it is.

Let's see. That's not so bad.

Why, there's oceans of room here.

Johnny, this is the first time in my life I've ever been away from America.

- Me, too. - Isn't it just beautiful?