The Conversation - Emotional Detachment in Professional Tasks
Harry:
It's no ordinary conversation. It makes me feel...something.
Meredith:
Forget it, Harry. It's only a trick.
Harry:
What?
Meredith:
A job. You're not supposed to feel anything about it. You're just supposed to do it. That's all. Relax, honey.
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The Conversation - Conversation about past relationships and locations
Meredith:
I want to hear all about you. Where are you from?
Harry:
New York.
Meredith:
I used to live in New York. At first, I worked as a receptionist and then I got promoted to secretary and then I was promoted to gal-Friday and special assistant to the Boss. Then I married him. Do you live far from here? Harry?
Harry:
Are you still married?
Meredith:
Oh, I don't know. Probably. Why then, maybe I am. The last thing I heard, he was trying to scrape up enough money to buy another hardware store. And I ended up out here in San Francisco - unemployed - which is the entire story of my life up until tonight. You don't like me very much, do you? You don't want to talk to me or anything.
Harry:
I didn't say that.
Meredith:
Something is on your mind. I wish you'd tell me. I do, I wish that, I wish that you'd feel that you could talk to me and, and that we could be friends, I mean, aside from all of this junk.
Harry:
If you were a girl who waited for someone...
Meredith:
You can trust me.
Harry:
...and you never really knew when he was gonna come to see you. You just lived in a room alone and you knew nothing about him. And if you loved him and were patient with him, and even though he didn't dare ever tell you anything about himself personally, even though he may have loved you, would you..would you, would you go back to him?
Meredith:
How would I know - how would I know that he loved me?
Harry:
You'd have no way of knowing.
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