Your fiancé was only trying to spare you. He did not want to tell you the truth as I told it to him.
7 seconds sound clip from the Algiers (1941, Lux Radio Theatre) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:41:20 in the original recording.
Quote context
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- If you go now, there'll be no use in your coming back!
- Gaby, don't do it. Come back, Gaby. Don't do it, please!
- Inspector! What did you say?
- I also ask you not to go to the Casbah.
- Why not?
- Your fiancé was only trying to spare you. He did not want to tell you the truth as I told it to him.
- You see, an attempt was made to capture Pepe le Moko this afternoon. In a sense, it was successful.
- You mean he's been taken? Pepe le Moko has been captured?
- Not alive, mademoiselle. Pepe le Moko was killed.
- Now I want to tell you a real-life story which happened to Mrs. Florence Dewey of Morris, Illinois.
- About five or six years ago Mrs. Dewey bought some material for a new dress.
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