- Charles Richmond: All our years of marriage she never once raised her voice at me, never tried to wheedle anything out of me. She was... remarkable.
- Maria Marcello: You were a lucky man.
- Charles Richmond: She died in great pain. A kind nature is no defense in sickness and death. So... what's the point of it?
- Maria Marcello: He was telling me about your mother.
- Anthony Richmond: How she liked his strength after my father's weakness? How she loved him, despite his wealth?
- Maria Marcello: He was so sad when he talked about her dying.
- Anthony Richmond: Did he tell you what he said the minute after she died?
- Maria Marcello: No...
- Anthony Richmond: He said, "You gave me everything, and took nothing. You were a very stupid woman." Let's not get sentimental, shall we?
- Charles Richmond: [about Tony] Just look at him, Miss Marcello. Observe those lily-white hands if you please. Good for nothing except driving Jaguars and seducing women.
- Anthony Richmond: Don't you wish you could still do either, Uncle?
- Charles Richmond: Where's that nurse? I need the nurse.
- Anthony Richmond: Ah, the nurse is coming, Uncle.
- Charles Richmond: I want a pretty nurse. None of those blasted battleaxes. Last one they sent me, a hag. Mustache! Ate goat's cheese all day and stank of it.
- Anthony Richmond: You know what you're throwing away, what you're losing? Foxhurst and all that goes with it.
- Maria Marcello: He goes with it, Richmond.
- Anthony Richmond: Oh, not for long.
- Maria Marcello: Too long for me.
- Maria Marcello: You encourage him. I have to fight both of you.
- Anthony Richmond: Just part of the game. Haven't you noticed I'm always in the wrong? I'm against you, he's for you. It's working splendidly.
- Anthony Richmond: As you see, Miss Marcello, my uncle has solved the servant problem in his own inimitable manner. He treats his servants like dogs, and his dogs like servants.
- Anthony Richmond: I want you to stay.
- Maria Marcello: Do women always do what you want, Mr. Richmond?
- Anthony Richmond: Invariably. May I sit down?
- Maria Marcello: No.
- Anthony Richmond: [sits down] Thank you.
- Charles Richmond: Enjoy your life. enjoy it. It would make you happy. I insist you are happy.
- Maria Marcello: Oh Charles, how can you order people to be happy?
- Anthony Richmond: Your photograph doesn't do you justice.
- Maria Marcello: My photograph? Is that important?
- Anthony Richmond: Appearances are very important - in a nurse. I had to pick carefully. You see, there have been mistakes in the past. But I'm sure we've made no mistake this time.
- Charles Richmond: You wash regularly, Miss, um...
- Maria Marcello: Yes, Mr. Richmond, I wash regularly. It is necessary in my job.
- Charles Richmond: That's all right, then. Smells good. None of that goat's cheese nonsense, thank God. No mustache.
- Charles Richmond: How do you suppose a man like me provides himself with agreeable, feminine company? Sends money to a mail order service? Has someone fished out of the typing pool for me? Not easy. One has to be careful. But I am very pleased with you, Miss Marcello. Very pleased indeed.
- Maria Marcello: Please go, Mr. Richmond. You're an attractive man, but I'm not interested. Neither in you or your uncle.
- Anthony Richmond: Well, that's a pity. Because the both of us are fascinated by you.
- Anthony Richmond: Why were you so sure I'd come?
- Maria Marcello: Because you *want* something from me.
- Anthony Richmond: Do I? Are you sure it's not the other way round? You want to be - persuaded.
- Anthony Richmond: Do you think I would have trusted you? Trusted any woman? I saw the way you fawned on him, just like my mother did. Like some cringing spaniel *bitch*.
- Charles Richmond: You disapprove of formality, Miss Marcello? Or do you object to my servants, perhaps? Know why I use them? I'll tell you. They serve. Hundreds of years of waiting on the white man. In their blood: service. Thing of the past for us. Everybody is a master. No sense of duty anymore, no respect. A negro may no longer know his place here or in America. But in Africa, you can still find some who do. Eh, Thomas? Mmm. Fine, primitive creature, Thomas. No aspirations, no education, but he knows what's what. Don't you, boy?
- Maria Marcello: My patient died last night.
- Charles Richmond: Died on you? So you kill them off, do you? Well, you won't get me!
- Anthony Richmond: You don't look like a nurse.
- Maria Marcello: I assure you I am. But I doubt if it's a nurse you require.
- Anthony Richmond: I can assure you we do.
- Anthony Richmond: She's here.
- Charles Richmond: About time, too. Let's have a look at her. Mustache again, I daresay. Sweaty armpits.
- Charles Richmond: That's right. You go, Miss Marcello. Up to your room. And tomorrow, clear that uniform! Make yourself look like a woman! Nice and desirable. Rustle, crackle and swish! Do you hear?
- Charles Richmond: I think I'll leave you to it, my dear. I can't stand the sight of these sharks gulping my champagne.
- Maria Marcello: You took me for something I'm not, can never be.
- Anthony Richmond: I took you for a woman. A woman who wants.
- Maria Marcello: You think money is all I want?
- Anthony Richmond: The other things, you can have them, too. We can have them together.
- [caress, kiss, embrace, long kiss, guides Maria down on the bed]
- Maria Marcello: Perhaps there are things about - about a woman which you don't fully understand.
- Charles Richmond: Perhaps.
- Charles Richmond: Splendid transmission from Milan. Just putting that bit onto tape. Something to do when I'm alone. Can you tell what that is?
- Maria Marcello: Beethoven?
- Charles Richmond: Yes, but what? What?
- Maria Marcello: Oh, you know I'm no good at guessing.
- Charles Richmond: "Fidelio". Oh, so full of life, vitality! Story of a devoted wife. "Fidelio".
- Charles Richmond: It will be good to be in England again. Something about the country makes me more at ease than any other place. Always has, since I was young. I'm not sure why. Hmm. Of course, I used to walk then. Country roads.
- Anthony Richmond: Just look at him, Miss Marcello. Observe those lilywhite hands, if you please, good for nothing except driving Jaguars and seducing women!
- Charles Richmond: Don't you wish you could still do either, uncle?
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