- But... But hang it, why can't they see what I'm getting at?
- Perhaps eventually they will.
- That's what I'm counting on.

10 seconds sound clip from the Holiday (1938) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:25:53.294 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- I went to Placid.

- I see.

- It was... It was horrible there.

- I can imagine.

- I'm gonna take that job at the bank, Linda.

- I see.

- Only for a while. Only for a couple of years. Just until I can get it through to her that...

- Well, it was what she asked, and after all, a couple of years isn't a lifetime, is it?

- Of course not.

- I think everything is going to be all right, Johnny.

- Sure.

- Oh. Oh, I can see the way they feel about it. I could hardly expect them to do a complete, sudden about-face.

- But... But hang it, why can't they see what I'm getting at?

- Perhaps eventually they will.

- That's what I'm counting on.

- Linda, you agree there's only one thing for me to do now, don't you?

- Compromise?

- Yes. Yeah.

- You think that's right, don't you?

- I don't think it matters a bit what I think.

- It does though, Linda.

- You think it's right, don't you? Say you think it's right.

- Johnny, when two people love each other as much as you do, anything that keeps them apart must be wrong.

[...]

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