The Purchase Price1932

Joan Gordon, aka Francine La Rue:
I've been up and down Broadway since I was fifteen years old. I'm fed up with hoofing in shows. I'm sick of night clubs, hustlers, bootleggers, chislers, and smart guys. I've heard all the questions and I know all the answers. And I've kept myself... fairly respectable through it all. The whole atmosphere of this street gives me a high-powered headache. I've got a chance to breathe something else, and boy, I'm grabbing it.

Eddie 'Ed' Fields:
Pick up the marbles, hon, you win.

Joan Gordon, aka Francine La Rue:
[Hands him some jewelry] By the way, here's a couplea trinkets I want to return to you. Might as well do it now.

Eddie 'Ed' Fields:
Sure you don't want to keep this hardware?

Joan Gordon, aka Francine La Rue:
Positive. [Reaches into a drawer, takes out a key, and hands it to him]

Eddie 'Ed' Fields:
All through playing house?

Joan Gordon, aka Francine La Rue:
All through, Eddie. Thanks.

Eddie 'Ed' Fields:
Well, so long kid. It was swell while it lasted.

Joan Gordon, aka Francine La Rue:
[Almost smiling, softly] Yeah. [Eddie turns and leaves]