The setting wasn't romantic, but Lloyd was. He woke me up at three o'clock in the morning banging on my door. He couldn't sleep, he said. He'd left Karen. Couldn't go on with the play or anything else until I promised to marry him. We sat and talked until it was light. He never went home.
You 'sat and talked' until it was light?
We 'sat and talked' Addison. I want a run-of-the-play contract.
There never was and there never will be another like you...[rising] What do you take me for?
I don't know that I'd take you for anything.
Is it possible, even conceivable, that you've confused me with that gang of backward children you play tricks on? That you have the same contempt for me as you have for them?...Look closely, Eve. It's time you did. I am Addison De Witt. I am nobody's fool. Least of all - yours.
I never intended you to be.
Yes you did and you still do...It's important right now that we talk - killer to killer.
Champion to champion.
Not with me, you're no champion. You're stepping way up in class.
Addison, will you please say what you have to say, plainly and distinctly, and then get out so I can take my nap.
Very well. Plainly and distinctly...Lloyd may leave Karen, but he will not leave Karen for you.
What do you mean by that?
More plainly and more distinctly? I have not come to New Haven to see the play, discuss your dreams, or pull the ivy from the walls of Yale. I've come here to tell you that you will not marry Lloyd or anyone else for that matter because I will not permit it.
What have you got to do with it?
Everything, because after tonight, you will belong to me.
[De Witt slaps her sharply across the face]
Now remember as long as you live, never to laugh at me. At anything or anyone else, but never at me.
