Studio One 47-05-27 (05) Dodsworth

Summary

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Studio One 47-05-27 (05) Dodsworth

Harold's Old Time Radio – February 16, 2026
Adapted from Sinclair Lewis’s celebrated novel

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Episode Overview

This episode of Studio One (original air date: May 27, 1947) brings to the radio the poignant story of Sam and Fran Dodsworth, a married couple navigating the discontents of middle age and the allure of Europe in the 1920s. Through their travels and marital trials, Dodsworth explores themes of identity, fulfillment, and the unraveling of a relationship stretched across continents and contrasting desires.

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Key Discussion Points and Plot Progression

1. Introduction and Context (00:33)

• The director frames the adaptation as a look at middle-class Americans during the postwar trend of European travel.
• Key Quote (Director Fletcher Markle, 00:33):
  "A portrait of a recognizable type of married couple. The kind of Americans who went on the kind of European spree that became almost a commonplace phase in the lives of our middle rich back in the middle 20s."

2. The Dodsworths’ New Freedom and Decision to Travel (02:17–08:45)

• Sam Dodsworth has just sold his auto business and is at a crossroads.

• Fran Dodsworth sees their new freedom as a chance to recapture youth and excitement; she proposes an extended trip to Europe.

• Sam hesitates, worried about their children and losing a sense of being needed, but is ultimately swayed by Fran's longing for adventure.

  Notable Exchange:

  • Fran: “I want to go to Europe. London, Paris, Italy. I want them all. The whole world. I want Spain. Great horizons. Oh, Sam, can't we look for them together?” (03:06)
  • Sam: “I want to be needed, Fran. I want to be.” (03:24)

3. The Grand Tour Begins and Tensions Surface (09:23–17:11)

• Sam and Fran begin their journey, with early optimism quickly challenged by mismatched expectations.

• Upon arrival in London and Paris, they mix with expatriate Americans and Europeans.

• Fran becomes increasingly drawn to European social circles and new acquaintances, placing strain on her relationship with Sam.

  Memorable Quote:

  • Fran: “Maybe we'll find some new selves in Europe. A woman at 40 is just getting to the age when important men take a serious interest in her. I only have five or 10 more years to continue being young. I won't waste them.” (08:01)

4. Marital Friction: European Influence and Alienation (17:32–29:18)

• Fran is swept up in Parisian society, reveling in shopping, portrait sittings, and the company of Madame de Panavel and younger men.

• Sam feels increasingly alienated, both from Fran and from the social set in which she now mixes.

• Arguments flare about friendships, cultural belonging, and mutual dissatisfaction, culminating in Fran’s decision to remain overseas while Sam prepares to return alone.

  Key Moment:

  • Sam: “I cabled Emily, told her that we're coming back in the next boat.” (28:22)
  • Fran: “No, Sam. I'm sorry. I'm staying here.” (29:07)

5. Separation, Reflection, and Attempts at Reconciliation (31:31–44:26)

• Back in the US, Sam struggles with loneliness and the hollowness of home without Fran.

• Fran, meanwhile, deepens her attachment to her European life, including an emotional entanglement with Kurt von Obersdorf.

• Sam returns to Paris, seeking to either reconcile or formalize the separation.

• Fran, now grandmother to Emily's child, laments her fading youth, refusing to let her new paramour learn of her grandparent status.

  Notable Quote:

  • Fran: “All my friends in Paris, they think of me as young. And I am. Oh, I am now. I'm a grandmother. I'm only 41.” (44:45)

6. The Collapse: Divorce and Acceptance (46:37–50:45)

• Fran reveals her intent to divorce Sam and marry Kurt.
  • Fran: “Kurt loves me and I love him. You don't complain. You've never really known me.” (47:14)
• Sam faces Kurt, who offers to step aside if it would heal their marriage; Sam, resigned, wishes them well and walks away.
  • Sam: “If you do love her, don't let any consideration for me stand in your way. Now, I've got to finish packing. You go to Fran. She's right. You'll be able to make her happier than I ever could. Good luck.” (50:29)

7. Moving On: Sam’s New Connection (53:03–59:46)

• In Venice, Sam is befriended by Edith Courtright, an American widow. They bond over shared disillusionment with expatriate life and the need for privacy and sincerity.

• Edith provides comfort, understanding, and hints at the possibility of new love, serving as a sharp contrast to Fran’s capriciousness.

  Exchange:

  • Edith: “Why do you stay on in Europe? What do you find?” (55:04)
  • Sam: “Well, that's kind of hard to say. I came abroad because of Fran. That was last year. Right now I really don't know why I'm staying here.” (55:45)

8. Final Reckoning and Sam’s Assertion (61:12–68:10)

• Fran’s plans to marry Kurt fall apart due to opposition from Kurt’s mother, leaving Fran alone and longing for home.
• She implores Sam to reunite and return together to America.
• Sam, recognizing the fundamental irreconcilability of their differences, firmly but kindly tells Fran that their marriage is over.
  • Sam: “It just won't work, Fran. We'll never make a go of it. Never.” (65:22)
• He calls Edith Courtright and commits to moving forward, ending the story with hope and self-respect restored.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Oh, Sam, let's have a new life. Let's not settle down into dull contentment.”
  — Fran, urging adventure (07:33)

• “I only want to talk for a bit. Seems we're never alone long enough to say two words.”
  — Sam, longing for connection as Fran drifts away (26:06)

• “Fran, you're a selfish child, but she's my child. And I've got to go to her to take care of her.”
  — Sam, torn between love and self-sacrifice (62:34)

• “For the first time in all our arguments, I'm thinking of what's becoming to me.”
  — Sam, claiming his own happiness (66:52)

• “Hello? Hello, Edith, it's me. Yes, Sam. Fran will be going back to Zenith without me. And I'm flying to Naples on the next plane. Oh, my darling. I'm coming back.”
  — Sam, choosing a new future (67:44)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:33 – Introduction and theme of American restlessness in Europe
• 02:17 – The Dodsworths’ decision to travel abroad
• 08:01 – Fran asserts her fear of aging and desire for new experiences
• 17:02 – The couple’s quarrels escalate in Paris
• 28:22 – Sam announces plans to return home; Fran refuses
• 31:31 – Sam returns home alone
• 44:45 – Fran’s panic at becoming a grandmother and waning youth
• 47:14 – Fran asks for a divorce
• 50:29 – Sam gives his blessing to Kurt and Fran
• 53:03 – Sam meets Edith in Venice
• 61:12 – Fran’s Parisian hopes collapse; she seeks reunion
• 65:22 – Sam finally asserts independence, ending the marriage
• 67:44 – Sam calls Edith, embracing a new chapter

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Episode Tone and Language

The episode is marked by direct, emotionally charged dialogue, mirroring the original’s critical yet empathetic view of American ambition and vulnerability abroad. Both protagonists speak with the diction and cadence of the late 1940s radio drama—earnest, formal, and occasionally florid, but always accessible. The tone shifts from hope and conviviality to conflict, disappointment, and ultimately self-realization.

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Conclusion

"Studio One: Dodsworth" is an incisive, well-crafted drama of marriage, identity, and second chances. Its characters’ journey from comfort through turmoil to resolution resonates as much today as it did in Sinclair Lewis's time, offering a timeless meditation on growing up—and apart—amid dreams of freedom and belonging.

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Transcript

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[Sam Dodsworth]

This is Studio one at cbs. The Columbia Broadcasting System invites you to Studio 1 or the fifth broadcast in a new series of hour length versions for listening of celebrated stories, novels and plays. We introduce the director of Studio One, Fletcher Markle. Tonight's a romantic drama, a very wonderful story by Sinclair Lewis. And just a word about it before we begin. It's a portrait of a recognizable type of married couple. The kind of Americans who went on the kind of European spree that became almost a commonplace phase in the lives of our middle rich back in the middle 20s. The story is Mr. Lewis's Dodsworth, one of the many distinguished bestsellers by America's angry man Pulitzer, a Nobel Prize winner who published his 20th novel. This week, Santa Sortega and Anne Seymour are recreating Sam and Fran Dodsworth for us tonight with Ann Burr as Edith and Everett Sloan as courts. And now we fold back the calendar 22 years to bring you their lives and loves and and times. From studio one, cbs presents dodsworth by sinclair lewis.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, aren't you nearly dressed?

[Sam Dodsworth]

What?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Fran, haven't you finished?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Just about. My dinner jacket has a spot on the lapel.

[Fran Dodsworth]

How do I look? I have this frock especially made for tonight.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Tubby Pearson spilled a cocktail on me at the country club last week. Meant to have it. Darling, you look wonderful, simply wonderful.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, I want to talk to you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What have I done now?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, I didn't want to say anything about this until you had the plants sold, contract signed and everything, but. Well, you finished all that this afternoon.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm a free man. Ex president of Revelation Motors.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, I've been thinking lately. This may be our only chance. The only time you'll be free till we're both so old we won't enjoy wandering. Let's take the chance before you get yourself tied up designing some new kind of automobile.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What are you talking about?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Fran, I want to go to Europe.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You mean across the Atlantic?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Europe, London, Paris, Italy. I want them all. The whole world. I want Spain. Great horizons. Oh, Sam, can't we look for Them together.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What about the children?

[Fran Dodsworth]

They'll manage. Brent's in college. He won't need us. And Emily's to be married next month. After that, she won't need us either. We can leave right after the wedding.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't like this. You're saying they won't need us? I want to be needed, Fran. I want to be.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm the one who needs you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

My darling, I know I haven't been giving enough time to you, but with all the details of selling the factory. But that's finished now. I just want to sit around and talk to my wife, get to know her again. Husband, Ty.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Fine.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, look at it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

It's fine, Sam. Well, I've got to do something besides sitting around Zenith. I'm a very active female. I want to travel. I've not seen Europe since I was a girl. And you've never seen us at all. Let yourself have a good time for once.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Would kind of like to look over the Rolls Royce and Mercedes plants over there.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, if we go to Europe and you spend our vacation visiting Facts.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Now, don't get bothered. We'll talk about it. Well, I'd better get downstairs and show that extra butler how to fix a dry martini.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Please don't drink too much tonight.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I never in all my life drank too much.

[Fran Dodsworth]

And try for once to talk about something besides motors and stocks. I'll try, Sam. What about Europe?

[Sam Dodsworth]

We'll talk about it later, after the party. Sam, it's the best martini I ever tasted. Should be, Tubby. Made it myself.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Best friend still crimpy.

[Sam Dodsworth]

She'll be down a minute. This is quite a night for you, Sam. Filled up Revelation Motors to a big corporation and now you've sold it for a fortune. I hear they've even offered you the job of vice president in their new company. That's right, Tubby. You gonna take it? Haven't decided. Don't know whether I'd like being a small cog in a big machine. I'm used to building things, doing them myself. I don't think I'd ever like sitting in an office giving up, giving orders to others. Looks to me like you've joined the unemployed. Oh, I'll find something to do. I have an idea of a new car I want to.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, hello, Tubby. Mrs. Pierson.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Emily. How's the girl?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Aren't you staying for the party? Sorry, I've got a date with my future husband.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Couldn't you and Harry stay here tonight?

[Fran Dodsworth]

We're driving over to look at a.

[Sam Dodsworth]

House in all this snow.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You really must be in love. We are, Mrs. Shield.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, don't stay out too late. Mother always worries.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Dad, you look wonderful in that dinner jacket. Like a. Like a grand duke or something.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Don't waste your compliments on your father. Save them for Harry.

[Fran Dodsworth]

He's waiting outside. I'll have to run. May see him later.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Tell him I said drive carefully.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Looks like a perfect marriage. Emily and Harry McKee.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You always say that, dear, before every wedding. No, not that. This one won't be. Emily married and Brent at college. Yes, I'd better begin to dig in against the lonely 60s.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam Dodsworth, what a thing to say. I'd give my right arm to have a dress like one friend's wearing. I'd give my other arm if I had her figure.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Never mind, honey. I like you the way you are. Here's the perfect husband for you.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Matilda. Tubby fan. It's a wonderful party.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Best martinis west of New York City.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, has Sam told you the news? No.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You mean about selling the factory?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, about us? About Sam and me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Now, friend, really, I don't think we're going to Europe.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You're up the grand tour.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, now, Fran. What do you know? Sam Dodsworth, you're a lucky guy. You sell your factory this afternoon, make a fortune. You've got a beautiful wife and now you're going to Europe with her. You're a very lucky guy. Yes, Stubby. I guess I am.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, are you asleep?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Not yet.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I want to know. Are we going or not? Going?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Where for?

[Fran Dodsworth]

To Europe.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, the new motor company tried to tie me up to a contract. They want me to come with them right away. I said I'd like to rest for six months before I make up my mind.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Then we can do it. Six months in Europe? Do we have to decide? No. I won't be able to sleep unless we do. Oh, Sam, we've done the first part of our jobs. Made enough money, brought up the children. We've done all these things, yet we're still comparatively young.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Comparatively? I'm 50 and you're 41.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'll not be 41 until next winter. Oh, Sam, let's have a new life. Let's not settle down into dull contentment. Let's leave this stupid old town. With what? One single, solitary plan in our heads. Beyond landing in Europe and coming back when we please. I'd even like to sell this house so we won't have anything to bind us.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You're not serious.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I am. But we couldn't do that this Is.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Our home the safe harbor waiting for us to come back to. We've built ourselves into this house. It's the only place where we can slam the door and tell everybody to go to the devil.

[Fran Dodsworth]

The only place we can be ourselves. Maybe we'll find some new selves in Europe. A woman at 40 is just getting to the age when important men take a serious interest in her. I only have five or 10 more years to continue being young. I won't waste them. Can't you understand?

[Sam Dodsworth]

You think that just going to Europe will change everything, make you young again?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I want to be free to wander wherever I like, not settle down. Oh, I could love you so much more if we weren't a pair of old horses on a treadmill.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I hadn't realized we were on a treadmill.

[Fran Dodsworth]

That's just it. You like it.

[Sam Dodsworth]

France.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Do you think you'll ever learn to enjoy things? You don't enjoy life. And you don't want me to.

[Sam Dodsworth]

All right, friend. This is what you want. We'll go to Europe.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam Dodsworth, I love you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I love you. Enough. Enough. Let's go to sleep.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Yes?

[Fran Dodsworth]

You're not going to make me feel guilty later on, complain at me for having dragged you away from Zenith? You really try to enjoy yourself, darling.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'll enjoy myself if it kills me. And it probably.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I love this music.

[Sam Dodsworth]

So do I.

[Fran Dodsworth]

It's from a show. Sam and I saw it. Saw it while we were in New York. Marilyn Miller on a white horse.

[Sam Dodsworth]

We'll be docking at Southampton tomorrow. I, for one, will be very sorry.

[Fran Dodsworth]

So will I, Major Lock, if you made this a perfectly wonderful voyage, I'm glad.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Tell me, where are you and Mr. Dodsworth going?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, we've no plans beyond London.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You want to stay there a bit?

[Fran Dodsworth]

There aren't too many Americans about. Why is it that the traveling American is such a dreadful person hunting down culture and so terribly grim about it?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Why is it that you other Americans, you nice ones, are so much more snobbish than the English?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Are we?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Appallingly.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Yes. I suppose you're right. We are. Huh?

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[Sam Dodsworth]

Lived in London for a year, you'll be more British than I am. I've knocked about so much in the tropics that I'm not too representative.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You really think so? That I'll become British?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I do. Fran.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Fran, what is it?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Pardon me, Major Lockett. I want to take my wife out on deck. Fran, we've cited land.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Nice.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You've got to see it. I want you to share this experience with me, Fran. A first sight of England. You'll excuse us, Major? Certainly. Shouldn't you wear your wrap, Mrs. Dodson? Never mind the coat. Come on, Fran.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Why did you have to rush me off like that?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, you've got to see this friend. Some sort of a lighthouse. Our first glimpse of England here through the story.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, it is cold out here. There it is, darling.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Mother England. Land of our ancestors. Home.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Really, Sam, you were born in Zenith and your father before you. Think what this means.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Robin Hood, Oliver Twist and Shakespeare.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Hey, I just remembered.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I've got some sort of cousins living in a place called Durham. Lost track of them years ago, but they're my people.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm freezing.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You know, darling, I'm glad we came. Grateful to you for persuading me. Look there. Now you can see the shoreline. Am I including?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, not at all, Major Lockett. My husband has just discovered England.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Go ahead, laugh. Here's your rep, Mrs. Dodsworth. I was afraid you might need it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, that was very thoughtful, but I'M just coming in.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Look at that, Brad. The moonlight on the cliff.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm going in soon.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Go ahead. I'll stay here for a bit. Let's say we have another girl on the dance floor.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, I'd love it.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Just look at that. Mother England. Fran, is that you?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm here in the bedroom.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What is it? What's wrong?

[Fran Dodsworth]

How was your first bachelor dinner in London? All those American businessmen Supposed to seem like a meeting of the Rotary Club.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Ben, what's the matter with you? Why are you crying? Anything wrong?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Back home, I've always said it was really a compliment to a woman to be a insulting.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What are you talking about?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Maybe it is a compliment, but. Oh, Sam, I don't like it.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Who insulted you?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I never gave him the slightest little excuse. Oh, how I hate that man. He's a supercilious fool, that's what he is.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Who is?

[Fran Dodsworth]

He was after the opera I suggested to Clyde. Major Locket.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Locket?

[Fran Dodsworth]

What's he done? Well, I thought we might go somewhere and dance. He said all the good places were noisy, so couldn't we just come up?

[Sam Dodsworth]

You brought him here?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I didn't see anything wrong with that. I was a little tired first. He was awfully nice. Tell me about his childhood. How lonely he'd been.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Really frank.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, you know what a fool I am about children. How much I suffer. Just the least little suggestion of anybody not having a happy childhood. I almost cried. He told me how much it meant to him just knowing me. The next thing I knew, he'd thrown his arms around me, was trying to kiss me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Kissed you? Did he?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Of course. I pushed him away.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I should think so.

[Fran Dodsworth]

When he found that I was most certainly not going to let him kiss me. Got awfully nasty. Then I'd let him on. Sam, do you think I let him on?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't know.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, I'm so tired.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm not quite sure how to deal with this sort of thing.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Deal with it.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, I suppose it's up to me to go out and shoot Locket Odel in this store wouldn't be like a fool. But if you want.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I most certainly do not.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Matter of fact, I feel sort of sorry for Locker and entirely blame the man.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Samuel Dodgeworth.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, you flirted with him the whole time we've been in London and before that on the boat.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I've done nothing of the sort.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You had some excuse, I suppose, for thinking he could grab you off. You have such a nice way of always bawling me out in front of him. Making me look like a Midwestern bull in a Bond street china shop.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Never said one word to embarrass you. Not a single word.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Yes, you have luck. Naturally supposes that I'm a fool.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Anything I may have said was entirely for your own sake. Try to help me make a good impression on people. You say I bullied you. It's unforgivable of you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You're constantly hinting to anyone who listen that I'm merely an ignorant businessman. Yet anybody with a foreign accent. Any loafer living on women is a gentleman and a scholar.

[Fran Dodsworth]

People who don't understand you think you're vulgar and ill bred.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Meaning lockers stand.

[Fran Dodsworth]

This is Europe, not a small town named Zenith.

[Sam Dodsworth]

And I suppose you're an authority on Europe?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, I certainly am, comparatively. After all, I've been here before.

[Sam Dodsworth]

When you were a small child. Even Europe changes in 30 years.

[Fran Dodsworth]

My father's house was always full of Europeans. And I've read more French and German and British books than you've read detective stories. Sam. You never could be a European.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Fran, stop sneering.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I am not sneering.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You're completely right. I never could be a European. Why should I? I don't want to be anything but what I am. I'll never try to prevent you from being as European as you want. Just don't take your spider's locket out on me.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm sorry. I'm terribly ashamed.

[Sam Dodsworth]

For Pete's sake, stop crying, Sam.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I want to leave England. I couldn't stand here with that man thinking he's laughing at me and talking about me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You wouldn't do that.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Never knowing when I might run into him. I don't want to stay here.

[Sam Dodsworth]

All right. Let's go home. I've had enough. Let's go back to Zenith and open the house.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, no, not yet. We've only been away a month. Couldn't we go to France?

[Sam Dodsworth]

France?

[Fran Dodsworth]

You promised me we would.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, that's what you want.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I do. We can start out all over again. I won't make a fool of myself this time. You'll like Paris. Brioches and kiosks, red flush, war thief and fat lady cashiers.

[Sam Dodsworth]

All right, Pran. We'll start all over again in Paris. Madame.

[Fran Dodsworth]

We stay tuned.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Madame will ring if anything more is desired.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Yes, I mean we. A messy beaucoup.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You, madam.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, breakfast here.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Coming.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Shall I pour your coffee?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I make it black. I don't want to have warm milk.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I can't understand why you don't like Cafe Olay. I adore it. Oh, look at these wonderful questel. Oh, I feel so luxurious having breakfast in our suite.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Suppose he brought an American paper?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Yes, here's a Tribune.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Paris edition. At least I'll be able to read part of it. The chamilee would send me some papers from back home.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Scrambled eggs, please.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, what's planned for today?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, I have a fitting at 11 for that new evening gown. This afternoon I'm sitting again for my portrait, then tea at Madame de Pinable's. But, oh, by the way, you're invited.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, how'd that happen?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Really, Sam. Well, he always asks me to bring you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't like that woman.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You say such a thing. You don't know her.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't like the look of her I did. White skin and the dyed red hair.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You like my hair? When I had it done last week. Of course, mine was only touched up a bit to bring out the natural color.

[Sam Dodsworth]

That woman looks like a freak. So do the people she runs around with. Don't like any of them.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I wish.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Anyway, this is Mrs. Panavel.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, how many times must I tell you? It's Madame de Panavel.

[Sam Dodsworth]

She's Mrs. Pinable to me. As far as I can tell, no one's ever seen Mr. Pinable.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Rene Salon is one of the most fashionable in all Paris. I was fortunate to meet her through that princess. What's her name?

[Sam Dodsworth]

How do such people live?

[Fran Dodsworth]

This Mrs. Pinable, Madame de Pinable, where.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Did she get her money? Does she have an income? Alimony? Or does she get commissions from all the shops she steers you into?

[Fran Dodsworth]

What difference does it make where she gets her money? Maybe she's an international spy. Oh, now you're being ridiculous.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Never knew anyone who'd talk so much about themselves and tell you so little.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Rene's been wonderful to me. Taking me to the right shops, introducing me to the right people.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Right shops, right people. Doesn't anybody do anything wrong over here? At least this is what you wanted. Rena. Are you happy?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Completely, darling.

[Sam Dodsworth]

That's the important thing.

[Fran Dodsworth]

What are you doing today? Sightseeing?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't know. Maybe I'll go back and see that cathedral again. We've already seen it once with you and Mrs. Bonavel. I'd like to go back and spend some time just walking around without your.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Wife'S chattering to bother you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I didn't say that.

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[Sam Dodsworth]

Frank, can't we eat one breakfast of peace?

[Fran Dodsworth]

It's entirely up to you. Heaven knows I have a headache all day. When we quarrel at breakfast. More eggs?

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, but I will have another cup of coffee. Fran, I. I've been meaning to talk to you.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Yes?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm going home.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, no, Sam. Not yet. I want to see a lot more of Europe first. Well, I've hardly even started. I want to see Italy, the Mediterranean, maybe Egypt.

[Sam Dodsworth]

There's several things I ought to settle back in Zenith. I'd like to see Emily in her new house. There's my class reunion in June and was bad, sugar. We could still have a month in the Mediterranean. Get home the middle of June, sugar.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, nice. Reunion isn't until the 30th.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I don't want to go home yet. Maybe we could persuade Emily and her husband to come over here. You might give them. Give that to them as a prisoner. A sort of second honeymoon.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Couldn't we go home for a couple of months and then start out again? Maybe go west this time. I've always wanted to see the Grand Canyon. Then go on to California, Hawaii, the Orient.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Bad food and tropical fever. You'll go without me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

All right, Fran, forget it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Will you meet me this afternoon at Renee de Pen.

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[Sam Dodsworth]

Couldn'T it be someplace else? The New York?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'll be at Renee's for tea and I'll expect you to pick me up there.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Very well. Tea at Mrs. The Navels.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Ah, monsieur does work.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, hello, madame. Ben have.

[Fran Dodsworth]

So glad you could come. Whyn. She said you were not certain that you could make it some business matter to arrange.

[Sam Dodsworth]

The only business I did was with myself, sort of talking things over, getting things straight in My mind.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, that is sometimes very good to do.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Matter of fact, I've spent the whole day in the cathedral. Notre Dame Dam. Walking and climbing and looking. Quite a place. Those old boys really knew how to build posterity.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Monsieur d', Artre, you do not like me?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I beg your pardon?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, it does not matter. I happen to like you very much.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Really?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I always like honest people. And you are probably the most honest man I'd ever met. Even your dear wife. I think maybe she does not know how honest you are.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You make me sound very stuffy.

[Fran Dodsworth]

That was not my intention. I meant what I said to be a compliment.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm sure you did. By the way, where is my wife?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Over there, surrounded by all those young. Young men. Oh, yes, I see Ryan has overwhelmed them. Especially the young aviator.

[Sam Dodsworth]

The dark fellow with all the hair.

[Fran Dodsworth]

That is Captain G. He's an Italian. Very fine old family.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Our friends back home would hardly know Fran.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Boy, she has changed. Even in the short month that I have known her. So much gayer, happier, younger.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Yes. Yes, she is.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Could I give you some tea, Monsieur Dodfour?

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, thank you.

[Fran Dodsworth]

A cocktail for him.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Nothing. Nothing.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Monsieur d', Artvour, do not let your wife change too much.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Frankly, I don't want it to change at all.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I have seen so many of your American women come to Europe. Seen them swept up into a new kind of life. Some of them never go home again.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Fran and I are going back to Zena at the end of this month.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Good. I would not care to see Fran become one of these women who do not go home. They are like wanderers, traveling from the nightclubs of Paris to the nightclubs of Rome. Always traveling and with no place to go. The Lido, the Riviera, Biaristo. Always the same tired faces, the same weary laughter.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Would you give Fran a message for me?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Of course, Monsieur d'. Autreau.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Tell her I'll meet her at the hotel.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Do you not want me to call her? I am certain she has not noticed that you are here.

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, don't bother. I have an errand to do.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm so glad you dropped by and that we had this little chat.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Yes, so am I. Very gl.

[Fran Dodsworth]

And after all, I do think you could have waited for me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Sam, you seem to be very happily engaged with all those handsome young men.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I didn't even know you were there until Rene told me. Here, will you snap my shoulder? Snap. Renee said you stayed about five minutes chatting with her, which I must say, surprised me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

There you are, old snap.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Thanks. Well, why didn't you wait for me?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I. I had an errand to do.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Errand? Really? I had to get that nice Captain Giotero to bring me back to the House Hotel.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Young man with all the hair.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Italians have such breeding. He could call himself Count G if he wanted to.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Doesn't he want it?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm not going to let you get me into an argument tonight. I won't, Sam. I won't.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't want an argument either, Fran. Believe me, I don't. I only want to talk for a bit. Seems we're never alone long enough to say two words.

[Fran Dodsworth]

When we do, they always turn into a fight. You weren't like this, Sam, back in Penis. I really don't know what's changed you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

It's you who's changed, Fran, not I. I don't think I've changed at all.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You see, whatever I say, you twist it around and throw it right back at me. Well, I'm not going to let you. Tonight I intend to have a luxurious dinner at some little cafe. And then we'll meet Renee and Captain Garo at the ballet.

[Sam Dodsworth]

The handsome captain again.

[Fran Dodsworth]

They're dancing La Midi tonight.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Dancing what?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, that thing about the fawn and the scarf.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Couldn't we go someplace else, just the two of us?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Certainly not. Then they got a box of the ballet just for us all.

[Sam Dodsworth]

They do? Panavel and her whole gang of hangers on gossip and chatter and show off like a lot of exhibitionists. They're rotters, all of them. Just a bunch of wasters.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Rene de Panable is the intimate friend of the most exclusive aristocracy.

[Sam Dodsworth]

So what?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Will you kindly stop sneering? You really don't do it very well, Sam. Irony is not your long suit, my dear good man.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Hang on, Fran. Don't talk to me like that.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Then don't act like that. And don't say these horrible things about my friends.

[Sam Dodsworth]

They're not your friends. These slick young men hanging around you, flattering you. They're no good. Nothing but a lot of butterflies.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, thank heaven for the butterflies. I'm awfully tired of sensible, worthy ants. Sam, if we're going on together, we might just as well have this out.

[Sam Dodsworth]

That might be a very good idea.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Let's get it all straight. Exactly what we want, you and I.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Yes, let's do that.

[Fran Dodsworth]

All I want to do is enjoy life. Have a little while. We're in Europe and all you seem to want is to keep me from having it.

[Sam Dodsworth]

That isn't true, Fran, and you know it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Criticize Everything I say and everything I do. You dislike my friends and you keep.

[Sam Dodsworth]

And I say they're not your friends.

[Fran Dodsworth]

It's just no use trying to talk to you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

No use at all unless you talk sense. You're certainly not talking sense when you call these sponges your friends.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I have stood for all the insults that I can for one evening. And I do hope you won't keep arguing all through dinner.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm not coming, Fran.

[Fran Dodsworth]

What?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't feel like dinner.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Very well. I'll dine alone. Go on to meet the others. Afterwards, I'll make your excuses to Renee and Captain G. You needn't bother. All right, I won't.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Fine. I don't like what you said, but we're going on together. Is there any question in your mind that we're not?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm not going to argue with it anymore. It's already given me a splitting headache.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Before you go, I want to tell you I cabled home this afternoon. Oh, that's what I did when I left Mrs. I cabled Emily, told her that we're coming back in the next boat.

[Fran Dodsworth]

We're doing nothing of the sort.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I've had enough of Europe, Fran. I'm going home.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Then you're going without me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You mean that?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I certainly do. I promised Renee Venable to take a villa with her near Montrouge for the summer.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I see.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Why don't you go home by yourself? Because we'll both be apart for a while.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't want to go home alone, Fran. What would I tell our friends leaving you over here?

[Fran Dodsworth]

What would they think? I don't care what they think. Anything you please.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I've reservations on the Aquitania for tomorrow. Fran, never in our marriage have I wanted anything so much as I want you to come home with me. Please, Fran.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Please. No, Sam. I'm sorry. I'm staying here.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Very well.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You won't change your mind about dinner and the valet?

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, I'll stay here and pack.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Good night, Sam.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Good night, Fran. Enjoy yourself.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Darling, I. All at once I realized how much I missed you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You have to cry.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm sorry. I know. I. I swore I wouldn't last him. I. I almost wish I would say any. Perhaps I'll not stay here very long after all. Perhaps I'll come home.

[Sam Dodsworth]

When?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I don't know. Maybe next month. Sometime this summer. Meanwhile, darling, you have the very best time you can without me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I think I've had enough good times for a while.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Give my love to the children.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Of course.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Remember me to the Pearsons especially Tubby. Tell them they promised to come to Paris while we were here.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'll tell them.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, my dear, try and forgive your idiotic feather brained wife.

[Sam Dodsworth]

It isn't too late, Fran. They could send your trunks over later. You could still come.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Please, darling, let your little wife have a foolish fling.

[Sam Dodsworth]

That's the way you want it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I did make a real home for you, didn't I? All these years. And I shall again. But not just yet. Please.

[Sam Dodsworth]

All right, Fran. You stay here as long as you want.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Take care of yourself, my dear.

[Sam Dodsworth]

And you let me know if there's anything you need money around.

[Fran Dodsworth]

He'll write me every day. And don't be angry with me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm not angry, Fran. Believe.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, be angry if it will make you any happier. Oh, Sam, my darling, you're a big angry bear. But I adore you. Go on now, get on that train before I bawl.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Goodbye, Fran. Come home as soon as you can. I hope it's won't be too long.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Here we are, dad.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Wonderful word.

[Fran Dodsworth]

It doesn't seem possible. The house has been closed up for nearly a year.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Seems longer to me. Mother and I went away.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You better leave this door open and let in some ears.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Nothing quite so desolate. Desolate as an empty house.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'll have everything back to normal in no time, dad. Servants are coming in tomorrow and I'll drop in every day and see how things are going. Meanwhile, you stay with Harry and me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

He'll get tired of me.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, no, he won't. Harry's delighted. Says it marvelous to have you with us. We wish you'd stay until Mother gets back. Why not? Need this house closed up, dad, you know how mother loves to do the house over every year. Let her open it when she returns.

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, I decided this morning I'd get everything in order. All right, Fran. Tell her we're doing it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You think maybe that'll bring Mother home?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Yes, I. Yes, I hope it will.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Dead. You're not happy without mothers. Why doesn't she come home?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Your mother wants to see a little more of Europe. So?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I've had a feeling there was something more than that.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Honey, how empty a house can get when it isn't lived in. Seems like somebody else's home. Strangers. Not mine.

[Fran Dodsworth]

No wonder. Covers on all the furniture. And no curtains at the window. Dad, why don't we get new curtains for the living room?

[Sam Dodsworth]

You mean replace the ones we had? Those reddish ones with the big flowers?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Yeah. Surprise Mother with new ones. Something very fancy.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, I don't know. I always liked those old curtains.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Very well, darling. We won't change them. We'll do something else to surprise mother.

[Sam Dodsworth]

How about a new rug for this hall? I never did like the old one.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Perfect. It'll be the first thing mother sees when she comes in the front door dead. When do you think she will come back?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't know. Emily. Look here. Blind are getting cracked. That ought a new one.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Maybe she'll come back. Since she had a falling out with.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Mrs. Noble, she wrote in the last letter she might return to Paris.

[Fran Dodsworth]

She liked Paris, didn't you, dad?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Very much. It's like a series of villages, Narrow streets, little shops. Emily, I'm going back.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I thought you would dance. How soon?

[Sam Dodsworth]

As fast as I can book pass. Tomorrow if possible. I'm going to get your mother and bring her home. This is Studio one at cbs presenting as its fifth broadcast in a new series of hour length dramas Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis.

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[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, you haven't told me much about the children.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You haven't asked me. They're fine. I wish we could have gone someplace not so crowded our first evening back so we could talk.

[Fran Dodsworth]

This is one of the smartest restaurants in Paris.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm sure it is.

[Fran Dodsworth]

What about the Pearsons? Matilda and Tubby?

[Sam Dodsworth]

They'll be over sometime this month.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, I don't believe it.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Yes, it's all planned. Tubby's got some business to do in London. He'll come out of Paris for a.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Week or so I do hope I won't have to introduce them to all my friends.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You won't have to introduce them to anyone friends. In fact, you don't even have to see them if you don't want her. I'll show them around. Might be the best way. I don't think the Pearsons would like most of your friends.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, you aren't going to start that again.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm not going to start anything, Frank. Would madame care for more champagne?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, yes, thank you. I hope it's properly chilled by now.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oui, madame. Too bad you had trouble with Mrs. Pinable.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I did not have any trouble, as you put it, and I don't care to discuss it.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What about plans for him? Wine for you, missy? Yes, thanks.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I really don't have any plans.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, I've come back with two plans for you.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Either come home with me or let's go on traveling.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'd like to visit Germany. I met a charming man, Kurt von Obersdorf, who has some sort of ancestral palace near Berlin.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I have no desire to go to Germany.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You'll meet Kurt tonight. He should be here later.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I suppose you won't even consider going home. Anything more, monsieur? Not just now, thanks. Very good.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Why must you talk to me like that in front of the waiters?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Talk to you like what? There's only one way.

[Fran Dodsworth]

They're terrible gossips. Half the people in this restaurant will know we're having a fight.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I, for one, didn't know we were.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm not going home yet, Sam. And if that's what brought you back to Paris, you've wasted your time. Look here, Fran, will you please not raise your voice?

[Sam Dodsworth]

You won't come home with me.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I won't.

[Sam Dodsworth]

And you won't travel except to Berlin, where you know this court, whatever his name. Is that right? You want to stay here in Paris?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I do, Fran.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't propose to go on sitting by letting it turn into a social climber.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam Dodsworth, do you think I have to climb to meet people? Climb down, if anything, on our friend? Really, I do find it rather more amusing to associate with civilized people. Than with people like Tubby Pearson and the others back home. Do you mind?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Yes, I do. I mind very much.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Good evening, friends. Oh, Edith Courtright. Well, when did you get back to Paris? Yesterday. Oh, how I hated to leave Italy. I don't believe you've ever met my husband, Mr. Dodsworth. How very nice. Darling, this is Mrs. Courtright.

[Sam Dodsworth]

And unless I'm very mistaken, Mrs. Courtright, that's an American accent.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, what a thing to say. Nonsense. I've never tried to lose my accent. You're quite right, Mr. Dodsworth. Edith's father was assistant secretary of the treasury under president. I'm afraid I'm very unlike father when it comes to money. My attorney says I shall be penniless before I'm 50. Oh. How long are you staying in Paris, Mr. Dodsworth?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't quite know. Trying to persuade Fran to do a bit more traveling.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, if you come down to Venice, do look me up. Oh, I doubt that we'll bother with Italy if I go anywhere. I'd like to see Berlin. How is Kurt? Is he still in Paris? Yes, he promised to meet us here tonight. Well, I must go on. Some friends are waiting in the other room. Good night, Fran. How smart you're looking. And you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

We'll look you up if we come to Venice.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I think you might like Italy, Mr. Dodsworth.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm sure I would.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, good night.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Good night. Who was that woman?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Cesar Courtwright's widow. He was something or other in the British foreign service. They traveled all over the world until his death. I think she's a bit of a snob.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Seemed quite the contrary to me. Thought her manner rather pleasant. She's certainly the best dressed woman I've seen ever since I've been in Paris.

[Fran Dodsworth]

That black dress. Oh, it's frumpy.

[Sam Dodsworth]

But you said you're being polite. I think a woman looks very handsome in black. Always said I liked you in black. Well, shall we all to dinner or do you want another bottle of champagne?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I thought we might wait for Kurt. He said he'd try to have dinner with us.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Who is this Kurt I've been talking about ever since I arrived?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Kuart von Obersdorf is a member of one of the noblest families in Austria.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, then he's not German.

[Fran Dodsworth]

No, he simply works in Berlin.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Work? You mean he has a job with.

[Fran Dodsworth]

The international tourist agency. Head of their banking department. He's in Paris on business.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, he's the first European man of your acquaintance I've heard of who earns a living. I should like to meet him.

[Fran Dodsworth]

And when you do, I hope you won't insult him. At least not in the first five minutes.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Who was the last of your friends that I insulted?

[Fran Dodsworth]

We won't go into that, Sam. I don't want to argue. I'd hope that you'd try and be more agreeable now that you've come back.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Look here, Fran. I won't. Ah, Fran, my dear darling.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You're late.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, your friend, Mr. Dodsworth. Well, of course it is you. I hope you do not mind my kissing your wife's hand. Go right ahead. I'm sure she enjoys it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, this is good.

[Sam Dodsworth]

So I gather. Waiter, another chair.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Don't shout. Everyone's looking.

[Sam Dodsworth]

How else do you want me to do? You are absolutely right, Mr. Dodsworth. The only way to get things quite frequently is to shout for them. Your chair, monsieur.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You see.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, and waiter, another bottle may have stepped in. Mom. Well, I hope I did not keep you waiting.

[Fran Dodsworth]

We wouldn't order dinner until you came.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Mr. Dodsworth, I am enchanted to see you here in Paris. I know so much about your revelation motor car. For six years I have driven one. Indeed? How's it holding up? Well, it belongs to a friend. But the other day I drove through the champs Elysees at 150km an hour. I was arrested and fined. I shall report this to the company. Tell them what a good advertisement you are. Have them reimburse you.

[Fran Dodsworth]

That's an American for you. Always thinking of money.

[Sam Dodsworth]

And I suppose you aren't an American. No. Your wife regards herself as very European. But she's completely American.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Really Good.

[Sam Dodsworth]

She is as shiny as. As an automobile headlight. That's very good. She's also beautiful. Mr. Dodsworth, your wife has perhaps the most exquisite hair I have ever seen. But she would be most unhappy if everybody did not acknowledge that fact.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Good. In another minute I shall be angry, Mr. Dodsworth.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Now she thinks I have insulted her. A truly European woman would be delighted. Fran is only making believe. And she thinks herself European. She's lovely, really, because she's American. I admire all things American. Your huge buildings, your adding machines and your central heating. Oh, your beautiful central heating. Yeah. Mr. Dodsworth, I would like to drive you in my Revelation car that belongs to my friend out into the country. That would be very kind of him. Perhaps tomorrow. I know an amusing place where we could have lunch. What do you say, Fran?

[Fran Dodsworth]

If you wish. Splendid.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What's that you're doing, Fran?

[Fran Dodsworth]

You mean putting perfume on my hand?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Never saw you do that before.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, all the women do it in Paris.

[Sam Dodsworth]

In case they get their hands.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Kiss. Hold me in his hand.

[Sam Dodsworth]

This court is quite the fellow for kissing Ann.

[Fran Dodsworth]

It's the custom over here.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, I don't mind. Just seems a little silly. I do think he's sort of bossy, though.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Court bossy.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Always telling us where to go, what where to do.

[Fran Dodsworth]

But he's only doing that for us.

[Sam Dodsworth]

He likes his Own way.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, for you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

All right, all right. Let's not have an argument.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, that suits me to perfection. Well, there's.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You ready?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Yeah. Yes, I'll be right there.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Come in, come in. Ah, good evening, Sam. Come in, Count. Oh, please, please do not call me Count. I shall be glad if you call me Court. Very well, Court. You know, we Austrians are almost like you Americans in our fondness to call by the first name people that we like. Well, is our wife ready? Our wife? I. I hope you do not mind my little joke. Not at all. Our wife will be right here. That you pr.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Yes, darling, I know I'm late, but Court wanted mid season paintings in a little old shop. Anything wrong?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I just got a cable from my son in law. Oh, Emily's had a baby.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Baby?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Nine pound boy.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, Sam.

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, nothing to worry about. Emily's fine. So's the baby.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, this is terrible.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What do you mean by that?

[Fran Dodsworth]

All my friends in Paris, they think of me as young. And I am. Oh, I am now. I'm a Grandmother. I'm only 41. Oh, Sam, can't you see?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm afraid I can.

[Fran Dodsworth]

He's horrible at the end for me. The end? Oh, please try to understand.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I am trying.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I was so young when I married you. And it isn't fair for me to be a grandmother. Not yet. It isn't that I'm not a happy family, but I have my own life too.

[Sam Dodsworth]

How does this affect your life? Fran?

[Fran Dodsworth]

You mustn't tell Court. Court, you mustn't tell him. Not ever.

[Sam Dodsworth]

That's right. I see what you mean. Well, I'll go cable Emily and Harry, tell them how happy we both are.

[Fran Dodsworth]

And you won't tell Court? You've got to promise me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, friend, I won't tell Court.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Of course, darling, that would be wonderful. We'll dance until dawn. Seven o'.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Clock.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Yes, that would give me loads of time to dress. I have a new gown you haven't even seen. Yes, been saving it for just such an occasion. All right, darling. Expect you at seven.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Now where's Court taking dancing?

[Fran Dodsworth]

A new club's opening on top of my march. He's picking me up at seven.

[Sam Dodsworth]

He's picking you up?

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[Fran Dodsworth]

Now what's the matter?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I want to stay here and get off some letters. You realize you haven't written Emily since you had the baby?

[Fran Dodsworth]

You write for both of us. Emily'd rather hear from you anyway.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Listen, Fran. Isn't it time to think about going home?

[Fran Dodsworth]

You aren't gonna start that all over again. The way I feel, I. I don't care if I ever go back to Zenith.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Fran, you mean that?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I certainly do.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm willing to do anything to make you happy. I adore you. You know that. You're everything I have or want. Only we've got to cut out this nonsense of being wandering adventurers. We've got to go.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Now you listen. To repeat your favorite phrase. I'm not going home. Not ever. Fran, Kurt loves me and I love him.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What are you saying?

[Fran Dodsworth]

You don't complain. You've never really known me. You've never known anything about me.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm beginning to think I haven't.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You've never known what sacrifice I made to cover up your stupidities. To help you keep your dull friends and your dull work and your dull reputation.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, don't, Frank, don't. Don't say this.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I am going to divorce you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Monsieur Court wants to marry you.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Of course he does. Coward has everything I've always wanted. Culture, position. Oh, I admit I'd like to be a countess. Though how unimportant that part is. You could never understand. Kurt's going to take me to meet his mother.

[Sam Dodsworth]

There's just one thing, Fran. Wait a month. Before you do anything about a divorce. Be sure this is what you want before you do anything so final.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm sure right now. But if you want it that way, I suppose I can wait.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'll instruct my bank to send you 10,000 a year.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You're too generous.

[Sam Dodsworth]

That with your own money, you and court should be able to manage.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, Sam, if I could only make you see that it was your own ignorance, your stupidity, and not my fault.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Mr. Dadsworth, I didn't hear you. Not I. I didn't. I knew that you would not want to see me. You're quite right. I don't. I see you are packing. I'm moving to another hotel. Mr. Dunsworth, you do not understand this. I am not a gigolo or a Don Juan. And I do love Fran. Good. But if I told you how much I like and admire you. You would think me a fool. I would. I have kept telling Frank. But she does not appreciate you. It's very kind of you. Would you hand me those shirts? Thanks. If I could only bring you two together. Fran needs your steadiness. If I could bring you together, keep you both my very dear friends, I would go away. Believe me, I would leave this very minute. Suppose I called you bluff? Suppose I said, all right, go ahead, leave Paris. I will do it. If you would. If in turn, you would promise me to be always more tender with Franz. Well, Mr. Dodsworth, shall I go? Shall I leave you here with Fran? No. And I apologize. What? It is I who came here to apologize. Doesn't look as though Fran and I could ever get together again. If you do love her, don't let any consideration for me stand in your way. Now, I've got to finish packing. You go to Fran. She's right. You'll be able to make her happier than I ever could. Good luck.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Having fun, Tubby, dear?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Haven't had so much fun in a month of Sundays, Matilda.

[Fran Dodsworth]

That's it, dear. You have a time for yourself.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You don't mind Tubby enjoying himself, Matilda?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Heavens, no. I never really complain. I don't think much of females who fight with their men folks.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Absolutely right. You know, you're quite a gal, quite a wife.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I like to see Tubby happy, having a good time. Sam, when are you going to let yourself be happy again? When are you going to get wise and chuck Fran?

[Sam Dodsworth]

What a thing to say, baby. Shouldn't feel like that to old Sam.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I know why Fran didn't come home to Zenith with you while she's gone off to Berlin. She didn't want to be bothered with.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Tubby and me, that's what. Baby, you're talking too much.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, this is something I've been wanting to tell Sam for a long time. I've seen you change, Sam. These last years, you've been getting more silent and more sort of scared and unsure yourself while Fran's been preing her feathers and feeling more and more that she was the one who kept up your position.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, I've been kind of tired and confused, that's all.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, you're humble and kind and good.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Too good.

[Fran Dodsworth]

When I think how Fran's treated you. Especially the way she acts towards you in public. I. I could just wall up her.

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, baby. Gran ought to thank her.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Lucky star she's got you. Sam, have you ever been interested in another woman?

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, never.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, I'm making A private bet with myself. Six more months and you'll begin to look around.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Six months?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Or sooner.

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, I'll never do that.

[Fran Dodsworth]

And if you do, you'll be surprised at the number of nice women that'll fall for you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I bet they would at that.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You stand in Paris, Sam?

[Sam Dodsworth]

No. Thought I might do a little more traveling. Maybe go south to the Mediterranean. Italy.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, remember what I said. Look around, Sam. Have a little fun. I'm afraid I've frightened some of your pigeons away.

[Sam Dodsworth]

It's a wonder to me they can fly, they're so fat.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Everyone who comes to Venice must feed St. Mark's pigeons. You know, it was so surprising to meet you this morning.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You know, I almost Forgot your name. Mrs. Scotland.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Where are you in France staying? And why hasn't she phoned me?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Fran isn't with me. She's visiting friends in Berlin.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You're here alone, then? You must certainly come to tea. Whenever you say.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm free any day.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, what about today?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'd love it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Come along, then. I've a bit of shopping to do. You can pick out what you'd like to have for tea. There's a wonderful pastry shop across the square, Mrs. Courtright.

[Sam Dodsworth]

You don't know it, but you're about to save my life.

[Fran Dodsworth]

More tea?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I've had enough, thanks.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Another pastry, then?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I've had four.

[Fran Dodsworth]

They won't keep, you know.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Then just one more.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Do you know many people here in Venice?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Not a soul until I met you this afternoon.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Most of the fashionable set have moved to the Lido in this warm weather. But I prefer Venice. Later on, I may take a villa near Naples. Nothing smart, just comfortable.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Very unlike my wife's friends in Paris.

[Fran Dodsworth]

You mean Rene de Bono and Hercraft found out?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Some sort of a fight with the Panabo woman? They're the ones I met. I hate them.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I expect there are many others who share your feeling.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Magnificent apartment you have here, Mrs. Scottrant.

[Fran Dodsworth]

It's old and damp and badly in need of repairs. But I love the huge rooms, mosaic floors, quiet, faded walls.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I've enjoyed being here. I. I don't want to be impertinent, but something I've been asking myself. Now, I'd like to ask you, as American, the same question.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Yes?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Why do you stay on in Europe? What do you find.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Peace and quiet? America terrifies me. I feel insecure there. Everybody watching you, criticizing you. Unless you're buzzing about doing something important, there's no privacy there. I'm an extravagant woman when it comes to the luxury of privacy. For instance, you're the first American I've ever invited here for tea.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm indeed honored.

[Fran Dodsworth]

There was something about you that night in Paris. In that crowded restaurant. You looked so lonely, so forlorn. Tell me, Mr. Dodsworth, why do you stay in Europe?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, that's kind of hard to say. I came abroad because of Fran. That was last year. Right now I really don't know why I'm staying here. I wonder, would you have dinner with me tonight?

[Fran Dodsworth]

That would be very nice.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Maybe one of those restaurants on the canal that looks like a palace.

[Fran Dodsworth]

No, no. I'd rather dine here, if you don't mind.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Here?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I have a wonderful cook. Theresa's always complaining that I never have guests. She would be delighted if you stayed for dinner, and so would.

[Sam Dodsworth]

And I still like Italian music better than Wagner. With Puccini, you always know where you stand.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, that's one way of putting it.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Look at the moon through that window.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sorry. I'm much too comfortable to turn my head.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Edith, how many evenings have I been coming here?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I haven't counted them.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Dinner, coffee and talking. Until Teresa sends me back to the hotel.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Not beginning to bore you?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Bore me? I've never enjoyed anything so much. I feel relaxed and happy for the first time in years.

[Fran Dodsworth]

What do you hear from Fran?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Very little. She's in Berlin. I get a note about once a week.

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[Sam Dodsworth]

I'd better tell you before you find out. Someone else. Franz left me.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I suspected that the first night we had dinner here.

[Sam Dodsworth]

She's going to marry Baron Van Obedov. Oh.

[Fran Dodsworth]

So Kurt's finally landed himself a rich wife.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I suppose it's a very ordinary story. Fran's younger than I. I only wish I could hate her for what she's done. Tried. But I can't.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I know. I'm glad you can't. Sam.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What shall I do? Shall I go home without Fran? Wait around in case this thing with court doesn't work out?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I, I I can't advise you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

No, of course you can.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Why don't you come down to Naples with me?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Naples? Are you leaving Here.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I've rented a little villa. I'm taking Teresa down there the end of the week and she could chaperone us and cook for us. Why don't you come along? Say you'll come.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Yes, I.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, do you like it?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, it's heaven. Vineyards and gardens. Villas overlooking the bay.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I think you'll be happy here, Sam.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I know I will.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Shall we swim this morning?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Why not? Just stretch out in the sun?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Whatever you say, Dar. Sam, the Baron and Baroness Ercole are staying in the hotel across the bay. Oh, they're very nice. Shall I ask them here for dinner some night?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Yes, some night. Next year.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Any special month?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Someone we're not here.

[Fran Dodsworth]

More coffee, Signore Sam?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, I'm sorry. Afraid I wasn't listening.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Another cup of coffee?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, no, thanks. I would like brandy, though.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Si, signore, right away. You're very quiet tonight, Sam.

[Sam Dodsworth]

That's my mood, I guess.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, that's a good mood.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, it's wonderful dining here on the terrace. That magical view of the bay. Curious thing, Edith.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Yes?

[Sam Dodsworth]

This house of yours that I never saw until the other day. It's the first house I ever felt really at home. And I actually dare give an order here. No, I don't want coffee. But I would like a brand. Here.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm sure Fran never meant to be one of those domestic dictators.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Fran? Oh, yes. Fran. Was there any mail today?

[Fran Dodsworth]

You know very well there was. It's sitting on the little table just behind you. You saw the Paris postmark as you came down. That's why you've been so quiet all through dinner.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I suppose I better read it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Do get it over so that we can enjoy the rest of the evening.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Thanks.

[Fran Dodsworth]

The brandy, Signore Teresa. I believe I'd like a brandy myself. See? See, senora, I'll bring it to. Presto.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Poor friend. What's wrong now she's back in Paris? Bonobo stuff. It's turned her down? Oh, rather. His mother did. Refused to give up permission, his mother? Because of Fran's divorce. Oh, divorce she would have to get before they could be married.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Never considered that.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Now Fran's decided not to get divorce. She's sailing for home alone. She wants me to come with her because there's a boat leaving Sherber on Friday.

[Fran Dodsworth]

If you still love me, come home with me, Sam. Don't take this chance to punish me. Don't make me suffer more than I have already. Come with me, Sam. Otherwise I don't know what I'll do. Oh, Sam, I do need you so.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Well, Sam, I'm afraid I'll have to go.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Have to go?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Oh, my darling, I. I wish there was some way of telling you all that I feel. All that I. I won't let you.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Go back to that woman.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Eat it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I won't see you killed by her gay, irresponsible selfishness. Her only thought about anybody is what they. They'll give her and do for her. Please listen to me, Sam. Life offers you sun and wind and freedom. Fran offers you death, fear and death. I've seen how you age 5 years in 5 minutes. Every time you've got one of her complaining letters. I know what she does to you. Believe me, Sam, you'll not be helping her going back to her. You'll just make her feel all the more that she can do anything. Selfish, cruel things she wants in life and get away with it.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I know everything you can say and more. Fran's a selfish child, but she's my child. And I've got to go to her to take care of her.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I. I thought that someday it'd be easy for me to talk to you. I tell you all sorts of things about how I feel and think, Sam. About how good it's been to be with you. About how much bigger you are than you know. Not smaller, as Fran would have you believe. There were so many things I wanted to say. And now it's too late. You're going back to your wife. Everything's working out as she wants it. What she'll call a happy ending. There's a plane at midnight. Come on, I'll help you back.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Bless you. Mad, my dear. Bless you. Fran, you're looking wonderful.

[Fran Dodsworth]

It's this new suit. Scaparelli in such a bar. Bargain. Got it for almost nothing. I'll bet your wonderful flame, Mrs. Funny never can seem to remember her name.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Sam Court, right?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, yes. She's frightfully clever, I'm sure. But I'll bet she'd have paid twice as much for this suit.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Is there more Le Rage, madame?

[Fran Dodsworth]

No, that's the last. Except for my husband. What about your Sam?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'll turn to him. I will have everything waiting.

[Fran Dodsworth]

We'll be right down. Sam. You better hurry.

[Sam Dodsworth]

We'll make it time. We'll make it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

It's nice to be going somewhere again. You can't know how tired I got. Oh, you were so right about Court.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Was I?

[Fran Dodsworth]

I don't know how you guessed it. You'd be the first to admit that usually you aren't too awfully good judging characters. But from the beginning you were right about Court and his mother. The most horrible, awful, old, stiff necked woman.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I hate to hear you riding Kurt and his mother like this. They were probably hurt, too.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, you're right, darling. I'll be a good girl, I promise. We both learned lots in all this, don't you think? In the future I won't be so flighty and you won't be so irritable.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm sure you won't, Fran.

[Fran Dodsworth]

While we're in New York, I want to buy some new furniture for our living room back home. French provincial, like I saw here. We don't have to get the real thing. Of course they do. Wonderful reproductions that last much better.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Emily's getting the house ready for you.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Wonderful. Well, hadn't you better tend your baggage so we can go, friend?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I. I want to talk to you.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, darling, we've days ahead of us aboard ship to do all the talking you want.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I want to talk to you now.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm not going to go off someplace and leave you. We'll have whole days with nothing else to do but talk or come along, darling. You don't want to miss the boat train.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I guess there's no use trying to do this tactfully. Fran. You just won't listen.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Do what? Taxi.

[Sam Dodsworth]

It just won't work, Fran. We'll never make a go of it. Never.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Well, what have I done now?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Isn't what you've done today.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Haven't you learned anything? Not one single thing out of all our sorrows.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Our sorrows?

[Fran Dodsworth]

Will you kindly, Mr. Dodsworth, be a little less mysterious and tell me just what it is I've done to hurt your tender little feelings this time?

[Sam Dodsworth]

You don't get me, Fran. I'm not trying to make a scene. I'm not blaming you or criticizing you. But I meant what I said. We'll never make a go of it. I'm not coming home with you.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, what are you doing?

[Sam Dodsworth]

Operator? Donna done him while long distance. Oh, you speak English. Well, I want to put a call through to Italy. Sam, the villa at call at Naples. That's right. Yes, I'll hold on.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Sam, what is to become of me?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't know. If I did, I wouldn't have come to Paris. I don't know and I don't much care.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, you do manage to hurt me. I congratulate you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Please, Fran, let's not fight.

[Fran Dodsworth]

All this time I've been flattering myself. You really wanted me to come back to you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I'm not going to be polite Fran.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I'm sure you're not.

[Sam Dodsworth]

What's to become of you? I don't know. But I guess it will be the same thing that's becoming of you all these years. Yes? Yes, Operator, I'm still here. Fran. You haven't needed or wanted me, not for a long time. Even back in Zenith, you found people to play with. Plenty of bows and such. I suppose you'll go on finding them until you're an old woman.

[Fran Dodsworth]

That's horrid, Sam Dodsworth.

[Sam Dodsworth]

For the first time in all our arguments, I'm thinking of what's becoming to me.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I hate you, Sam. I hate you.

[Sam Dodsworth]

I can't help you anymore, Fran. I'm just your attendant, the fellow who rolls a carpet ahead of you for you to walk on with somebody else. You could kill me if I let you go on like you've been in the past. I didn't used to. Mind your embarrassing me, continually putting me in my place. Didn't even know you were doing it most of the time. But I know now, and I won't stand for it.

[Fran Dodsworth]

All these years when I've allowed not one single soul to criticize you. But I've always taken up for you, even when you were wrong.

[Sam Dodsworth]

It's no use, Fran.

[Fran Dodsworth]

Oh, let's overlook all this. The things we said. We'll both be sorry after we thought it over. And I'll come along or we'll be late.

[Sam Dodsworth]

Don't you understand, Fran? I'm not coming.

[Fran Dodsworth]

What'll I say to the folks back home?

[Sam Dodsworth]

I don't care what you say. Tell them anything. The truth. Tell them we're finished, you and I.

[Fran Dodsworth]

I won't listen to this, Sam. I won't.

[Sam Dodsworth]

We're through. Tell them, Sam. Doddsworth took all he could and he's not taking any more. Hello? Hello, Edith, it's me. Yes, Sam. Fran will be going back to Zenith without me. And I'm flying to Naples on the next plane. Oh, my darling. I'm coming back. This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

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