A scene from His Girl Friday 1940
Hildy

Mrs. Baldwin - Mother!

Mrs. Baldwin

Don't you 'Mother' me! Playing cat and mouse with my poor boy, keeping him locked up, making us miss two trains and you supposed to be married tomorrow.

Hildy

I'll be with you in five minutes.

Mrs. Baldwin

You don't have to go with me at all. Just give me Bruce's money and you can stay here forever as far as I'm concerned - you and that murderer you caught...Which one of these men is it? They all look like murderers to me.

Endicott

Wait a minute, Hildy. What murderer did you catch?...

Hildy

I don't know what she's talking about. I haven't said any such thing.

Mrs. Baldwin

I am quoting my son, and he has never lied to me.

Hildy

That's ridiculous. In the first place, I never said anything like that.

Mrs. Baldwin

Yes you did.

Hildy

No, I didn't. I said I was trying to find the murderer. [To the news-hungry reporters] She got it all balled up. Can't you see that?

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