Ex-Lady

I'm sorry, but consider yourselves

evicted from the premises.

I'm afraid we're being politely ordered to leave.

- If you say "Politely.." - Ha-ha!

- I'll get my things. - 'Alright.'

My dear, you better wake your husband.

He seems a little hors de combat.

- Wake up, darling. - Eh?

Oh, I..

Good evening, all.

Must we really go?

Hate to drive you away, but I've got

lots of work to do tomorrow.

Tomorrow's Sunday.

That's the only way I know it's Sunday.

I do twice as much work as other days.

What're you working on now, Helen?

Illustrating that what's-his-name's

book for children.

I finished that. I'm doing a cover now for the Home Journal.

- Ladies'? - Ladies'.

I laugh every time I think of it.

Well, to make a longstory short

after the lecture was over..

- Aunt Lucinda went up to the-- - Goodnight, Helen.

Come over and see us soon.

Pick any night you want.

Soon as I get breathing time I'll call you.

Well, are you going or coming?

I'd like to stay a while.

Nick, I've got to get to bed.

- So what? - Tsk, tsk, tsk.

You know I'm not that kind of a girl.

I know you'’re nice.

And is that being nice? Go on home.

You know something's gotta be done about

you and me sooner or later.

Goodnight, Nick.

'Is that you?'

'Who else do you expect?'

Gosh, it was a long evening.

Darling, we need such evenings.

It makes things you love not go stale on you.

And what things do you love?

My work.

Is that all?

Yes.

Yes?

Yes.

Oh, come on. Help me clean up.

- Must you really work tomorrow? - No way out.

'Promised the cover for Monday.'

Ah! Confound the cover.

Yes.

But don't confound the 300 dollars.

You'’re a successful woman

and I ought not to like it.

You're a pretty successful man.

I ought not to like it.

I'm a man!

Mm.. What a boring evening.

Oh, boring?

It's always boring when we're not alone.

Say, I'm hungry. You want to turn in right away?

No. Only said that. I'm hungry too.

Let's see what we've got.

You know..

...I'm just about fed up with sneaking in.

- Sneaking? - Yes, sneaking.

Let'’s get married

so I'’ll have the right to be with you.

What do you mean, "Right?"

I don't like the word "Right."

Oh, let's not quibble about words.

No, I'm not quibbling.

"Right" means something.

No one has any rights about me, except me.

How '’bout a Welsh rarebit?

- You know my weakness. - No, tell me.

Rarebits.

Hello, father. What brings you here?

Excuse me a minute. I'm cold.

I want to put something on.

Wait outside.

It's better you should not listen to this.

Where'’s mother?

No use shutting the door. I saw him.

Cheap. Cheap!

My daughter, cheap.

I'm not cheap.

I just don't want to make an unholy drama out of this.

There's no drama.

I had heard, but I didn't believe.

Now, I see it.

My daughter, my child.

'Oh, don't let's get dramatic about this.'

'Don't let's start arguing.'

We've been all over this.

I don't believe in what you believe.

That's all.

I don't want to get married.

You don't want? Youdon't want?

The whole world is wrong. You're right!

We've been all over this a hundred times.

If you came in here to start a scene

or make an argument, I wish you'd go.

Alright, I'll go. But first..

- What're you doing? - I'll show you what I'm doing.

- Don, I'm sorry. - That's alright.

I want to talk to this lump alone.

- Come on out, Don. - Let me talk to him.

- I want to talk to him. - Alone!

Yes, alone.

Do you mind, Helen?

- You dirty low.. - Let'’s just skip all that.

I want to talk this over with you reasonably.

'Reasonably? Reasonably!'

'Better I shouldn't talk to you at all.'

Better I should do what a father ought to do. I should kill you!

I bring up a child to be a good girl.

To hope someday, she will meet a good man.

She should be married, she should have children.

When comes along a scoundrel.

A dirty, low scamp!

There's no use talking like that, Mr. Bauer.

Helen and I don't feel the way you do about it.

We're in love with each other

and we don't want to get married.

You're hopelessly old-fashioned, Mr. Bauer.

Old-fashioned? Hmph.

That's a good word.

That'’s a compliment! I thank you.

'What's good is old-fashioned?'

You dirty, low--

This isn't going to get us anywhere.

- Come. - Adolph, maybe the--

Come!

Let's have breakfast. I'm starved.

- Let's talk. - Let's eat.

- No, let's talk. - Let's eat and talk.

Helen, I'm willing to kid about this

but we can't go on kidding about it.

- We ought to get married. - "Ought.."

Ouch!

Yes, ought. We ought to get married.

There isn't a reason in the world why we don't.

And you call my father old-fashioned.

It isn't that I'm stuffy, Helen. I've been around.

Just a playboy.

Now, you know what I mean.

The funny part of it is..

When we first met..

- When we, uh-- - Dash, dash, asterisk.

I didn't feel this way about it at all.

I think if you had suggested marriage at that time

I'd have run rapidly in the other direction.

But now, I know you're going to say

this is sentimental, Helen..

...but I like to feel we belong to each other

forever and ever.

I want to marry you.

Oh, Don, we'’ve been over it

over it and over it.

I went away from home to be on my own.

I don't want to be like my mother.

A yes-woman for some man.

I want to be a person on my own.

If I like to live a certain way

and have a certain kind of furniture..

do a certain kind of work and wear

a certain kind of clothes..

I want to do it.

And not have somebody tell me

I ought to do something else.

No one is going to tell you.

Oh, yes, you are. If you're married.

That's what being married means.

You must do what the other person wants.

You must please them.

Marriage means..

Oh, I've said it 50 times, Don.

It's dull. I'm not going to say it again. Toast?

Helen, I feel strongly about this.

- Stop it. - It'’s either marriage or--

It's dull!

- Where're you going? - It's dull.

You're just as stubborn as your father. Just as stubborn.

'We have a different sense of values.'

I don't want babies.

When I'm 40, I'll think of babies.

In the meantime, there are 20 years

in which I want to be the baby

and play with my toys and..

...have a good time playing with them.

- A career. - Oh, it isn't just that.

Sure, I want to do good work. But it isn'’t that.

I want to stay young for a while

and have a good time and not be dull and set.

I don't want to be a wife.

And I do want to be a husband.