- If only you didn't...
- If I didn't what?

4 seconds sound clip from the Little Women (1950) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:37:49 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Those were the darkest days of our lives, but our prayers were answered and our little sister Beth was spared.

- Marmee was home by now and - and then the glorious day when Papa came back to us, too.

- Thin and worn and weak, but - but home again.

- Well, I guess the March family is all together once again.

- Oh, I call that splendid. I do, really.

- If only you didn't...

- If I didn't what?

- Meg, are you expecting that man to call?

- Man? Well, if you mean John Brooke, Jo...

- Well, I hope you don't think you're in love with him, because I can tell you that you're not.

- I'm not?

- Nope.

- You see, I'm a writer, and so I know. You have none of the symptoms. Your appetite's fine, you sleep like a log, and you don't mope in corners. Therefore you're not in love. Therefore do not go and marry that man.

- I don't intend to go and marry any man.

- You don't?

- Hurrah for you! You're a trump!

[...]

Little Women (1950) Sound Clip

Little Women vintage book coverAudio quotes from the old-time radio play "Little Women", based on Louisa May Alcott's novel, broadcast March 13, 1950 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: June Allyson (Jo March), Janet Leigh (Meg March), Margaret O’Brien (Beth March), Rhoda Williams (Amy March), Peter Lawford (Laurie), Betty Lou Gerson (Marmee March), Robert Boone (Professor Bhaer)

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