In the Restaurant
Carl RITCHIE: Yet I had given you a new proposal with an unbeatable price!
Margaret PEAKE: Yes, your competitor’s quote was slightly higher. When I received your proposal, I called them and asked them to match your price and then placed the order with them.
Carl RITCHIE: That wasn’t very sporting of you, Mrs. Peake!
Margaret PEAKE: You deserved it. You did everything that you could to alienate me: It was as if you wanted to show me just how different we were from one another and how incapable I was.
Carl RITCHIE: Maybe, but how did it benefit you to give the order to my competitor for the same price?
Margaret PEAKE: You need to realize that we are not machines, Mr. Ritchie.
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