Lucile Watson credited as playing...
Louisa Bradley
- Louisa Bradley: Elliott, who is this man you invited to dinner tonight?
- Elliott Templeton: He's an English author.
- [Referring to W. Somerset Maugham]
- Elliott Templeton: He's quite alright. In fact he's quite famous. So pretend you've heard of him even if you haven't.
- Elliott Templeton: I'm afraid I haven't a very good account to give you of that young man, Louisa.
- Louisa Bradley: Oh?
- Elliott Templeton: When he first came over to Paris, for Isabel's sake, I asked him to lunch to meet the sort of people he ought to know. He told me he didn't eat lunch.
- Louisa Bradley: Perhaps he doesn't.
- Elliott Templeton: And then, when I asked him to dinner, he said he couldn't come because he had no evening clothes. If I live to be a hundred, I will never understand how any young man could come to Paris without evening clothes.
- Louisa Bradley: Maybe he just didn't want to.
- Elliott Templeton: That's the most incredible reason for refusing an invitation I've ever heard in my life.
- Elliott Templeton: [Recounting a series of rejected invitations] And then when I asked him to dinner, he said he couldn't come because he had no evening clothes. If I live to be a hundred I shall never understand how any young man can come to Paris without evening clothes.
- Louisa Bradley: [Referring to the turning down of the invitations] Maybe he just didn't want to.
- Elliott Templeton: That's the most incredible reason for refusing an invitation I've ever heard in my life.