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.
9 seconds sound clip from the Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:06:11.406 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Blaming her? We're doing this for her.
- What's that got to do with having dinner an hour early?
- Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long-distance at half past 6.
- Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.
- Well, we can't be too particular.
- Although we love Rose, the brutal fact is that... well, she isn't getting any younger.
- There's the poor old maid now.
[...]