..if your husband were alive, the first thing he would doin times like hese- cut salaries!" Pleading boredom and a trivial excuse, she rejects the wage cut with an independent, stylish, yet eccentric sense of logic:Unfortunately Monsieur Giron, business bores me to distraction.In Marathon, Florida several years later, Graham had recovered and found a life of self-imposed retreat - living in his Florida Keys home with his pretty wife Molly (Mary-Louise Parker) and son Josh." The Chairman believed her speech was only "mechanical mimickry." Cornelius then identified himself - as Zira""s "lawfully-wedded spouse," and explained how he had been speaking "the language of our ancestors for nearly 2,000 years" - although he didn""t know it was called "English.Film posters exclaimed how she holds up as Grant""s equal:"SHE LEARNED ABOUT MEN FROM HIM."[Note: Ironically, Grant""s other film in this same year,The Philadelphia Story (1940), had a similar plot about him trying o win back his ex-wife (Katharine Hepburn) from her very soon-to-be-wed fiancee.The Duck""s objective - to save himself from the chopping block - was to show his usefulness and not become obsolete.