- Meanwhile, I'll admit that you're the white man's burden.
- Oh, yes, I know, and I can't tell you how it comforts me.
6 seconds sound clip from the The 39 Steps (1937) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:30:16 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- Oh, I can't go any further. I've lost my shoe.
- Where?
- All right, sit down... sit down for a while.
- Do you - think we've lost those men?
- Oh, it's as black as pitch on this moor. They'll never find us now.
- You know this is all very silly. You can't escape. What chance have you got handcuffed to me?
- Keep that question for your husband when you get one.
- Meanwhile, I'll admit that you're the white man's burden.
- Oh, yes, I know, and I can't tell you how it comforts me.
- Why don't you give yourself up?
- To whom?
- Oh, give yourself up to Scotland Yard.
- Thank you, but it's a little impractical at the moment.
- Listen to me. I told you the truth on the train and I'm telling it to you now.
- There's a dangerous conspiracy against this country and I'm the only man who can stop it.
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