The Law in Her Hands (1936)

Warren Hull: Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell

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• Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : It's a long time since I've ridden the subway out to Brooklyn.

  Mary Wentworth : An aristocrat, eh? Well, it won't hurt you this once. Besides it's good for the circulation, it shakes up the liver. You never heard of anyone from Brooklyn needing an osteopath, did you?

• Mary Wentworth : I thought the court was a place where they served justice.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : Look, Mary, why don't you give it all up?

  Mary Wentworth : Give up?

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : I'm making forty-five hundred a year now and that's enough for both of us. Mary, will you marry me?

• Mary Wentworth : Give me a year. I can learn a lot of tricks in a year.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : Okay, it's a bargain. The worst of luck to you.

• Mary Wentworth : I'm going to stick it out, Bob. You don't want to marry a failure.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : But, what if you don't succeed? Mary, the law's no profession for a woman.

  Mary Wentworth : My, but you're encouraging. Don't tell me you're one of those 'woman's place is in the home' me.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : Ah, no. I didn't mean it the way it sounded. But, Mary the legal profession is full of tricks and technicalities. It's not for a woman.

  Mary Wentworth : Women have been known to learn tricks.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : Sure. I don't want my wife to know too many of them.

• Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell : In the law racket, it ain't in how many books you got, not what you can find in 'em, it's the tricks you can dig up out of your old noggin. Now, ain't you got an idea or two in that head of your's, huh?