14 seconds sound clip from the The Moon's Our Home (1941) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:05:18 in the radio play.
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- This is Miss Chester, Miss Manning.
- How do you do, Miss Chester?
- How do you do, Miss Manning?
- I'm so sorry that I kept you waiting. But the moments fly by on silvery wings when one is lost in Tolstoy.
- Oh? You're interested in literature?
- Interested? Oh, there's nothing I like better than to hide away by myself with a book... a good book. Oh! Well, you may write that down.
- Thank you. But, frankly, Miss Chester, I'd like to do an article closer to the hearts of our readers. Like, er, love... and marriage.
- Yes! That would be quite original. Love... and marriage. Let me see...
- Marriage should be like a ski jump. Sudden, swift, reckless. Starting on the heights, leaping into the void, never knowing the end, never caring! Breathless, defiant, exhilarating!
- I see what you mean.
- And love. There's only one way I could fall in love. Not as Cherry Chester the actress, but as a plain ordinary girl.
- I could only fall in love with a man I didn't know, and who didn't know me. There should be nothing but us two: the man and the woman.
- No past. Perhaps no future. Just the magnificent present!
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