Henry Van Cleve, Age 9 Quotes in Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Henry Van Cleve, Age 9: Hello Mary.

Mary, Age 9: Don't speak to me, Henry Van Cleve. You're a bad boy and my mother says I shouldn't talk to bad boys.

Henry Van Cleve, Age 9: I betcha you don't know what I've got in this box.

Mary, Age 9: And I'm not interested, Henry Van Cleve.

Henry Van Cleve, Age 9: Then I won't tell ya it's a beetle.

Mary, Age 9: A beetle!

Henry Van Cleve, Age 9: D'ya like it?

Mary, Age 9: Oh, who doesn't like beetles!

Henry Van Cleve, Age 9: It's yours.

Mary, Age 9: Thank you! Oh, thank you, Henry. I wonder if I should take it?

Henry Van Cleve, Age 9: Well, if you don't want it.

Mary, Age 9: Oh, I don't mean it that way, I was just wondering...

Henry Van Cleve, Age 9: Don't worry, I've got another one.

Mary, Age 9: Another beetle?

Henry Van Cleve, Age 9: Uh-huh.

Mary, Age 9: Oh, it's beautiful. It looks rather lonely, though. You know what I think, I think it wants to be together with mine.

Henry Van Cleve, Age 9: You mean you want this one, too?

Mary, Age 9: Henry Van Cleve, do you think I'm the kind of girl who would take a boy's last beetle?