You need companionship, I think, someone sympathetic with your work, but the last thing on earth you need is a manager.
9 seconds sound clip from the Back for Christmas (Suspense) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:08:23 in the radio play.
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- I've often wondered what she must have been like - your wife, I mean.
- She was always managing things, her whole life... she managed herself to death!
- Poor woman. She must have loved you very much.
- But she needn't have put herself out so. It's plain to see you don't need things managed for you.
- How well you put it. The last thing on earth.
- Operator. Operator... are you there? I'm still waiting on that call to Salisbury.
- Oh? Well, put them on, quickly.
- Hello? Is this Paul Holt and Sons? It's Mrs. Hubert Schumacher.
- Did you receive my letter? Good.
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