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START: Joanna: I can’t tell you how relieved I am that you’re in. I’ve done the most idiotic thing.
Garry: Why, what’s happened?
Joanna: I’ve forgotten my latchkey!
Garry: Oh, Joanna!
Joanna: It’s no good looking at me like that-- I’m not in the least inefficient as a rule, this is the first time I’ve ever done such a thing in my life.
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END: Garry: (Bitterly) What about Morris? Is he in love with you? Has there been anything between you two?
Joanna: Of course there hasn’t.
Garry: Do you swear to that?
Joanna: There’s no need for me to swear it, you can see can’t you? I don’t want to live with you, God forbid. You’d drive me mad in a week. But you are to me the most charming, infuriating, passionately attractive man I’ve ever known. (Leans over him. Touching his arm) Who could
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