The Blue Veil (1951)

Joan Blondell: Annie Rawlins

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• Louise Mason : Mrs Rawlins, I, I would like to leave if, if you could find someone to replace me.

  Annie Rawlins : What's that,Louise? Why?

  Louise Mason : Well, I've been meaning to say something to you about it for some time but I find it difficult.

  Annie Rawlins : Well, don't you like it here? Don't you like Stephanie?

  Louise Mason : Why I'd rather not go into that.

  Annie Rawlins : I insist you tell me.

  Louise Mason : Well, I've been on the verge of leaving before, but each time you get a new job and I postpone doing anything about it. And each time it would get worse.

  Annie Rawlins : I don't understand. I thought you were happy with Stephanie and me. I thought you loved us.

  Louise Mason : I do. And believe me, it's because I do that I have to leave.

  Annie Rawlins : Well then. That just doesn't make sense.

  Louise Mason : Well, let me put it this way; I know that you don't mean to, but you see so little of Stephanie and she's been turning to me more and more. Now, she's turned completely.

  Annie Rawlins : wha' that's silly. No one can take the place of a mother in a child's life.

  Louise Mason : In church this morning, Mrs Rawlins, she singled me out as her mother in front of her friends.

  Annie Rawlins : She did that? It's just a gesture, Louise.

  Louise Mason : No, it's more than that. I find it hard to be frank about it or to do myself out of a good job but unless I leave, you may lose your daughter, Mrs Rawlins and that would be the worst mistake you've ever made.

  Annie Rawlins : It's good of you to tell me, Louise.