What's that got to do with having dinner an hour early?

2 seconds sound clip from the Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:06:02.237 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Why must we have dinner an hour early?

- Because Rose is expecting...

- Now, don't go blame your sister.

- Blaming her? We're doing this for her.

- You know Rose's problem.

- Warren Sheffield's been writing to her for six months without one word that even smells like a proposal.

- What's that got to do with having dinner an hour early?

- Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long-distance at half past 6.

- Long-distance?

- Yes, from New York City.

- And if the whole family's sitting here in the room, she may be loath to say the things a girl's compelled to say to get a proposal out of a man. If the man, unfortunately, is Warren Sheffield.

- Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.

- Well, we can't be too particular.

[...]

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