- Forgive me if this sounds foolish. But since talking with you today, I feel that shaving off my beard is the most important thing I've done for 20 years...
- Oh, it is. I'm sure it is.

— Hubert Schumacher (Peter Lorre)

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[...]

- Why kind?

- Not many young ladies in bookshops would go out of their way to look up rare books for an old professor of Botany.

- Why, you're not old, Professor. Really you look... What do I look like?

- And besides, I adore botany. It's my particular hobby.

- Oh, really? You never told me that before, Miss Markham.

- Well, I was afraid to. You were so imposing with the beard and all.

- Forgive me if this sounds foolish. But since talking with you today, I feel that shaving off my beard is the most important thing I've done for 20 years...

- Oh, it is. I'm sure it is.

- I'm so sorry that I've been so distant with you all this time.

- Oh, there were times when I almost spoke up.

- Times when you came in here, tired after a day with your students at me University.

- You seemed so alone... the way I'm alone in the world.

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