Week-End Marriage (1932)

Louise Carter: Mrs. Davis

Quotes 

• Doctor : Haven't you brought enough unhappiness to your husband without jeopardizing his life?

  Lola Davis Hayes : I...?

  Doctor : Let me give you a little advice. One way or another, a man will find a woman to look out for him not only when he's sick but when he's well. That's something you so-called "modern girls" never seem to count on. You talk about freedom, because you think it's something men have and cherish. But they don't. They hate it. They get along best when they're *not* free. It's human nature, that's all. They need old-fashioned women looking after their health, nagging them into caution, feeding them properly, and giving them families to live for. A great many of these women are just as well-fitted for business as you are, but they don't want it. They put their talents to work instead in what people today think of as a narrow sphere. Well, I don't think it's narrow. I think it's the most important sphere of all. Not much recognition in it, perhaps--no spectacular publicity--but it's built up nations before now, and it *will* build them again.

  Mrs. Davis : You hear that, Lola?

• Agnes Davis : I don't suppose he earns more than $40 a week.

  Mr. Davis : $40 a week? When I married your mother I was getting $15 a week.

  Mrs. Davis : Oh, that was then dear. Just the same, I do think young people today are extravagant. I dare say, you and Jim could manage very well, even if you didn't work, Agnes.

  Jim Davis : We'd manage a darn sight better, Mother, and that's the truth.

  Agnes Davis : Yes. I could spend all day taking care of the darn house for you. Cooking your meals and washing your dishes and thinking how *marvelous* it'll be when you get home at night. We couldn't ever go anywhere because we couldn't afford it. You'd know just where I was and just what I was doing all the time. We'd see so much of one another, we couldn't possibly like each other. It would be indecent - like not wearing any clothes.

• Lola Davis Hayes : But surely you can't expect that boys would know anything about nursing.

  Mrs. Davis : Oh, I don't know, Lola. I give up. In my day, a man had his wife to look after him when he was sick.