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Our Betters |
| Year |
1933 |
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[last lines]
Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
You know, you're very naughty sometimes, Pearl, but you have a good heart and I can't help being fond of you.
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
Minnie!
Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
Pearl!
[they embrace]
Ernest:
Ah! What an exquisite spectacle! Two ladies of title, kissing one another!
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Princess Flora dela Chicora:
It's wonderful how you've made your way, Pearl.
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
Shall I tell you how I've done it? By force of character, wit, unscrupulousness and push.
Princess Flora dela Chicora:
You're very frank.
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
That's always been my pose.
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Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
She's an extraordinary creature; she's in love with her husband. You know, I'm convinced she's never had an affair.
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Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
Pepi, you know the most enchanting word in the English language? Perhaps.
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Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
Marriage is so middle class. It takes away all the romance of love.
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Thornton Clay:
You're a most unscrupulous woman, Pearl.
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
Not more than most.
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Arthur Fenwick:
Then if I leave you you'll have nobody but your husband?
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
Nobody.
Arthur Fenwick:
You're going to be terribly lonely, Girlie.
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Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
Men are trivial, foolish creatures. Kind hearts but no heads. And they're so vain, poor dears, they're so vain.
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Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
I never mind scandal, but I don't expose myself to ridicule if I can help it.
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Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
I can't imagine what you see in him. Surely, you must know -
Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
[cutting Pearl off sharply] There's very little about him I don't know. He's a gambler, a spendthrift, and an idler. But, in his way, he's fond of me. You can see he's fond of me, can't you?
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
Well, I suppose there's no good talking. If he makes you happy...
Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
He doesn't! He makes me miserable. I love him. He wants to marry me, Pearl.
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
Oh! Minnie, you're not going to!
Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
Oh, no. I'm not such a fool as that. Why, if I married him, I'd have no hold over him at all!
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Arthur Fenwick:
You're my guiding star. My ideal! I don't know what I'd do if you failed me. I don't think I could live if I ever found you weren't what I think you are.
[bends to kiss her hand]
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
[looking down at his bent head] You shan't, if I can help it.
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Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
Ah, Mr. Harvey. Still enjoying life in London?
Thornton Clay:
Well, he should be. I've got him invitations to all of the nicest parties, but he will waste his time in sight-seeing. The other day - Thursday, wasn't it? - I wanted to take him to Hurlingham and he insisted on going to the National Gallery instead!
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
What an outrageous proceeding!
Fleming Harvey:
Well, I don't see that it was any more outrageous for me than for you. I saw you going in just as I was going out.
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
[recovering, after a moment's unease] I had a reason to go.
[sits by Arthur]
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
Arthur's just bought a Bronzino, and I wanted to see those at the National Gallery.
Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
I think it's far more likely that you had a rendezvous. It's a marvelous place for that, I've heard. You never meet any of your friends there - and if you do, they're there for the same purpose and pretend not to see you.
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Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
Nothing will induce me to stay in this house another night!
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
[as Minnie walks into the garden] It's a very slow train. Pepi'll be hungry and out of temper. You'll look your age.
[Minnie stops in her tracks, turns, comes back into the room]
Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
You promised me the luggage cart.
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
You shall have it! But you'll have to sit on the floor - there are no seats.
Minnie, Duchess of Sourae:
Pearl, it's not going to break down on the way to the station?
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
Oh, how *can* you suspect me of playing a trick like that on you!
[looking slightly regretful]
Lady Pearl Saunders Grayston:
It never occurred to me.
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