A scene from Psycho 1960
Sam Loomis

You never did eat your lunch, did you?

Marion Crane

I better get back to the office. These extended lunch hours give my boss excess acid.

Sam Loomis

Why don't you call your boss and tell him you're taking the rest of the afternoon off? It's Friday, anyway -- and hot.

Marion Crane

What do I do with my free afternoon? Walk you to the airport?

Sam Loomis

Well, you could laze around here a while longer.

Marion Crane

Hmm. Checking out time is 3 PM. Hotels of this sort are interested in you when you come in, but when your time is up. Oh Sam, I hate having to be with you in a place like this.

Sam Loomis

Married couples deliberately spend an occasional night in a cheap hotel.

Marion Crane

I know marriage can do a lot of things deliberately.

Sam Loomis

You sure talk like a girl who's been married.

Marion Crane

Sam, this is the last time.

Sam Loomis

For what?

Marion Crane

For this, meeting you in secret so we can be secretive. You come down here on business trips. We steal lunch hours. I wish you wouldn't even come.

Sam Loomis

All right, what do we do instead? Write each other lurid love letters?

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