A Letter to Three Wives - Unspoken Love and Fear of Rejection
Deborah Bishop:
Have you any idea how much Lora Mae is in love with you?
Porter Hollingsway: [scornfully]
No! How much?
Deborah Bishop:
So much she's afraid to tell you, afraid you'd laugh at her.
Porter Hollingsway:
Me laugh? She couldn't say it with a straight face. Lora Mae in love with me? It's all she can do to wait it out.
Deborah Bishop:
Wait it out?
Porter Hollingsway:
Yeah, like an annuity till it matures. Like a slot machine till it pays off. That's what she's waiting for. A chance to call it off, to collect. "The end of the line. Fares, please." Don't tell me about love and Lora Mae.
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A Letter to Three Wives - Love and Transactions in Marriage
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
I've been a good wife. The best wife your money could buy.
Porter Hollingsway:
Strictly cash and carry.
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
Isn't that what you wanted? Isn't that what you told me? "Out in the open. You made a good deal, kid." Did you every stop to think, Porter, that in over 3 years there's one word we've never said to each other, even in fun?
Porter Hollingsway:
To you, I'm a cash register. You can't love a cash register.
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
And I'm part of your inventory. You can't love that, either.
Porter Hollingsway:
I asked you to marry me because I was crazy about you.
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
You didn't even ask me!
Porter Hollingsway:
I've been a good husband. You got everything you want.
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
If you'd only asked me, if you'd only made me feel like a woman instead of a piece of merchandise!
Porter Hollingsway:
Did you give me a chance to? All you ever showed me was your price tag.
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A Letter to Three Wives - Unexpected Responses in Marriage Proposal
Porter Hollingsway:
OK. OK, you win. I'll marry you. How about it?
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
Thanks... for nothing.
Porter Hollingsway:
Now what kind of an answer is that?
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
I don't know. I just felt like it. That's all.
Porter Hollingsway:
We'll do all right, kid. We're starting out where it takes most marriages years to get, out in the open. No jokers. You'll see. You've made a good deal, Lora Mae.
Mrs. Finney: [walking into the room]
Lora Mae, honey, if you want me I'll be over at the Callahans playing...
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
Happy new year, Ma. We're gonna get married.
Mrs. Finney:
...Bingo!
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A Letter to Three Wives - Defining Personal Perspectives on Relationships
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
I've got very definite ideas.
Porter Hollingsway:
Like what?
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
There's never been anybody in particular. Nobody special.
Porter Hollingsway:
Plenty that wanted to, I'll bet.
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
What do you think?
Porter Hollingsway:
That you've been waiting for that one guy to come along.
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
I got very definite ideas.
Porter Hollingsway:
What's he got to be like, this one guy?
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
Someone who wants to marry me more than anything else in the world.
Porter Hollingsway:
You sure got wrong ideas about things.
Lora Mae Hollingsway:
They may be wrong, but they're definite
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A Letter to Three Wives - A Man's Perspective on Strength and Nature
Porter Hollingsway:
It's a man's world. Yeah! See something you want, go after it and get it! That's nature. It's why we're made strong and women weak. Strong conquer and provide for the weak. That's what a man's for! Teach our kids that, there'd be more men!
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