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- Harry Lime: Well?
- Walter Strickland: Beautiful! I didn't know you were in the diamond business, Harry.
- Harry Lime: I'm not. That's why I want to sell it to you.
- Harry Lime: Well, I can give you two prices for it - a hundred and fifty thousand the way it is, two hundred and fifty if it's properly cut.
- Harry Lime: The second price interests me.
- Walter Strickland: I thought it would.
- Harry Lime: I'll have to take a rain check, Mr. Wheeler.
- Frank Wheeler: That's the problem with rain checks down here. It never rains.