- When there's a straw going, you catch it.
- Yes, of course you do.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Skin Game (1931) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:11:18 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I had to make my living in all sorts of ways. And then I met Charlie.
- He thought I was respectable, and that was such a relief, you can't think. So I let him...
- Well, after I married him, you see, I fell in love.
- Oh, if I had of before, perhaps I wouldn't have dared.
- Only I don't know. You don't know, do you?
- When there's a straw going, you catch it.
- I've been on hot bricks all these months, ever since the row started and Dawker began to spy on me.
- Well, I paid for being a fool.
- It isn't fun, that sort of life, I can tell you.
- Oh, I'm not ashamed and repentant and all that.
[...]