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But eventually Jonathan is arrested, while Teddy is safely consigned to an asylum and the two aunts insist upon joining him.

Finally, Abby and Martha inform Mortimer that he is not biologically related to the Brewsters after all: his real mother was the aunts ' cook and his father had been a chef on a steamship.

In the film's closing scene, after lustily kissing Elaine and before whisking her away to their honeymoon, he gleefully exclaims " I'm not a Brewster, I'm a son of a sea cook!

" This is a Hollywood Production Code bowdlerization of the line in the play: " I'm a bastard!