Hildy: I wasn""t satisfied? I suppose I proposed to you?Walter insinuates that she made "goo-goo eyes" at him for two years, and forced him to propose when he was drunk: "And I still claim I was tight the night I proposed to you.I""m sick of the smell of booze.I""m sick of noise.I""m sick of being a pal to a lot of drunks.I""m not getting any place." He has also grown tired of girlfriend moll Iris Dawn (Wynne Gibson).His ambition is to make it big in high society.Speakeasy rival mobster Frankie Guard (Bradley Page) meets with Joe and proposes to buy him out for "fifty grand" - o end the competition." He implied that he couldn""t admit his affair with her:Anything I had to say to you, I wouldn""t put on paper!.Henry Whittaker speaks tediously on the topic of "Fun With Hydrangeas." The laconic platoon is seated on stage with her - in the audience are about two dozen elderly ladies taking in the lecture on horticulture.