The Shopworn Angel (1938)

[mrsl]

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In a large part you're correct and if Pidgeon were a younger fellow, it would be a total 100% yes, but he's not. He's an older, settled man who has worked most of his adult life for what he has achieved and should not be expected to gamble it all on a young man's fight. Just as I never felt any great pride in Rhett Butler for joining up at almost the last moments of the Civil War, it was a worthless expression of false pride. On a very personal note, it was a good thing he was there for her when she learned that her husband had died in Europe, mainly because she was forming false feelings for him through his letters, and would have felt honor bound to make a home for him when he returned, thus ruining three lives because of pride and pity.
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