HILDY: Hello, Peggy. PEGGY:: What was t...

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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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