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Hildy Johnson is a cocky renegade reporter in Chicago. He has just
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HILDY: Hello, Peggy.
PEGGY:: What was that, over the telephone?
HILDY: Nothing. I was just telling Walter Burns I was all through, that’s all. Hello, darling.
PEGGY: You haven't done something foolish with that money? Our money!
HILDY: No. No!
PEGGY: You still have got the rest of it?
HILDY: Of course. Gee, darling, you don't think for a minute—
PEGGY: I think I'd better take care of it from now on!
HILDY: Now listen, honey, I can look after a couple of hundred dollars all right. . .
PEGGY: Hildy, if you've still got that money I want you to give it to me.
HILDY: Now, sweetheart, it's going to be perfectly all right....
PEGGY: Then you haven't got it.
HILDY: Not-this minute, but I—
PEGGY: You did do something with it!
HILDY: No, no. He's sending it right over—Walter, I mean. It'll
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