The Mad Parade (1931)

Irene Rich: Mrs. Schuyler

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• Mrs. Schuyler : Captain Lawrence just left. You got us in another jam.

  Monica Dale : I have? How?

  Mrs. Schuyler : Your conduct on your last leave.

  Monica Dale : Oh, what's the matter with my conduct? Why can't I have a little fun?

  Mrs. Schuyler : Fun? Huh! The other girls seem to manage.

  Monica Dale : You wait until they've been up as long as I have.

  Mrs. Schuyler : I understand all about that and I've been pretty lenient. Next time, it won't be up to me. Now, Captain Lawrence has agreed to pigeon-hole this complaint on one condition... .

  Monica Dale : Yes?

  Mrs. Schuyler : ...at its first reoccurrence of this sort of thing, the girl's gonna be sent back.

  Monica Dale : Back to the Base? Oh, you'd never stand for that. Can't run the outfit without a top sergeant.

  Mrs. Schuyler : Who's talking about "Base"? It's back to the States, Monica.

  Monica Dale : The States? You mean they'd ship me out of here? Out of France?

  Mrs. Schuyler : You wouldn't like that would you?

  Monica Dale : Like it? I, I couldn't stand it. What would I do in the States?

  Mrs. Schuyler : You'd better snap out of it then.

  Monica Dale : Snap out of it, why? I do my job don't I?

  Mrs. Schuyler : Yes, but you...

  Monica Dale : You bet I do - like a man. Does Headquarters check up on every man in France that wants to live for a minute? No. It makes allowances for them. It knows it's war.

  Mrs. Schuyler : There's nothing new about war, Monica. And women have to carry on.

  Monica Dale : Women? Yes. Women! We're not women anymore. I'm not. You don't suppose I can go through it, living in mud, smelling the dead and still come out of it like I was? Betty, I kissed a man once. He was dying. He'd got in the way of a shell. I'll never forget the sight. Just a thing with two blind eyes. He was off his nut and thought I was his wife. I kissed him and heard the rattle. I went on my first bender after that. I got cock-eyed, for the first time.

  Mrs. Schuyler : Aw, I know, Monica. You've had more than your share. But you've got to pull yourself together, Monica. Realise that this war isn't going to last forever.

  Monica Dale : Oh, yes is it - for me. I couldn't stand peace now. That part of me is dead. That's why I can't go back to the States. I simply can't.