Original sentence: The Clock is the story of a soldier named Joe (Walker) who, while on a 48-hour leave in New York City, meets Alice (Garland) in Pennsylvania Station.They fall in love and are married before Joe's leave ends and he returns to war
Edited sentence: A drunk strikes the milk man, blackening his eye, and, after the company's road repairman has changed the truck's tire, Alice and Joe spend the night delivering milk to their benefactor's customers.Alice asks Joe where he is going, and he says he is on leave and has no definite destination.Although her roommate chastises Alice for "picking up" a soldier, Alice keeps her date with Joe, arriving late, and Alice shows him Central Park.Although it is after hours, Joe gets a shor-repair shop owner to open is store, and the proprietor repairs her shoe.Although they become separated in a subway, trying frantically to find one another, they reunite by returning to the place at which they met for their first date--the clock at the Astor Hotel, Having fallen in love, Joe asks Alice to marry him, and she consents.Having missed the last bus home, they accept a ride with a milk man.He asks to accompany her on her way to work, and she points out landmarks along the way.However, Alice finds the ceremony "ugly" and it is only after thet repeat their vows in a church that she feels truly married.However, they must run a maze of red tape which nearly prevents them from doing so.However, when he persists, chasing the bus she is riding down the street, she relents, promiding to meet him under the clock at the Astor Hotel.In The Clock, a soldier, Jow Walker, on a 48-hour leave, meets Alice Garland in Pennsylvania Station when she breaks the heel off one of her shoes.Later, they enjoy the hospitality of the milk man and his wife, who serves them an early-morning dinner.Shortly after the young couple weds, Joe's leave ends and he returns to war.Through their perseverance, they win over bureaucrats upon whom their success or failure depends.When he asks her whether she is busy the next day, she says that she is.When the milk man's truck has a flat tire, he and his passengers visit a bar to call for assistance