- Ooh. Thirty or forty years. Do you think we could keep it up that long? I mean, really.
- Well, we could try.

— Pamela Stuart (Ida Lupino)

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10 seconds sound clip from the The 39 Steps (1937) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:53:43 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You've nothing to worry about at all. He'll be a free man in an hour, Mrs. Hannay.

- Hannay? Well, what are you talking about?

- Well, I'm sorry, I thought...

- That would be just fine, that would.

- We were together for one day. One day, and we fought for twenty-four hours.

- Twenty. You were asleep four hours.

- Can you imagine what it would be like? Fight for breakfast, fight for lunch, fight for dinner. One long, drawn out battle for the next thirty or forty years.

- Ooh. Thirty or forty years. Do you think we could keep it up that long? I mean, really.

- Well, we could try.

(Audience applause)

- Robert Mongtomery and Ida Lupino have completed 'The 39 Steps,' but they'll take a fortieth when they return later to the microphone.

- First, a word from Melville Ruick.

- Thank you, Mr. DeMille.

[...]

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