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I have to be sure there aren't any...consequences.
What sort of consequences?
Well...you know.
No, I don't. [pause] Oh, my God! Umm, I beg your pardon my lady.
Well you see, I can't just go into a shop and buy something. What if I were recognized?
Well, I wouldn't know what to buy....Won't he take care of it?
I don't think one should rely on a man in that department, do you?
Why do you have to make everything sound so nasty all the time?
I'm nasty about Miss Baxter because she came here to help and support me and she's broken her word.
I doubt that's how she'd put it.
I must remember to organize a car to meet Charles Blake and his friend. They'll be here at tea time.
Do people think we're some sort of hotel who never presents a bill?
You've already made that joke.
I don't like it when we're not on the same side.
I loved Rose's definition of ordinary life--dancing and shopping and seeing one's friends.
Tell your friend Mr. Bricker to stop flirting with Isis! There is nothing more ill-bred than trying to steal someone else's dog!
Why is it called a wireless when there are so many wires?
...
If I touch it, will I get a shock?
You'll only get a shock if you listen to it.
How did you manage to get the rooms connected?
Well, I'm not a complete half-wit. Nor, happily, is the manager.
Darling Granny, you know how much I value your advice--
Which means you intend to ignore it.
Like all Englishmen of his type, he hid his qualities beneath a thick blanket of convention.
We don't know each other exactly--
But we certainly know of each other.
As for his so-called cowardice, that were like a wound in battle--a wound to his brain--so he didn't know what he was doing! He were a good and decent lad.
Of course he was.
Doesn't that make him a casualty of war, m'lord? Same as our William or any of them?
I was never the type to die of a broken heart. I'm sorry if that offends you.
On the contrary. I only hope Tony feels the same.
Goodness. I wasn't expecting that. [pause] I wish I could work you out.
I wish I could work me out.
I would never suggest anything that is not in your interest.
In my interest, or the family's?
To me, they are the same.
That is where we differ.
What do you mean a man's opened a colony in Essex?
Not that sort of colony, Mama. It's for people who want to take all their clothes off.
In Essex? Isn't it terribly damp?
Would that make a difference?
Well yes, if you had no clothes on.
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