Ingrid Bergman credited as playing...
Libby Meredith
- Libby Meredith: Oh, God, Will. You still believe in miracles. But, I don't. I almost did. Oh, I came so close.
- Libby Meredith: I wonder if you have ever thought of me, if I may borrow a word that has been taken over by very young, as "a person"?
- Ellen Meredith: You're my mother!
- Libby Meredith: What a catchall that is.
- Libby Meredith: Only the young are free to choose? To be taken by surprise and find - joy?
- Ellen Meredith: Unfortunately, yes. Older people have made their commitments, they've accepted their responsibilities, they have other compensations.
- Libby Meredith: Such as?
- Ellen Meredith: Peace of mind.
- Libby Meredith: Roger, do I know you too well - or not at all?
- Roger Meredith: We're in a time of change, Lib. Did either one of us know each other?
- Libby Meredith: I should have brought wading boots.
- Will Cade: Here.
- [Will picks up Libby and carries her across a stream]
- Libby Meredith: I'm heavy.
- Will Cade: Not as I can notice. No, you got a fine shape, Miss Roger. A fine shape.
- Libby Meredith: Oh, listen, I'm a grandmother!
- Will Cade: Oh, listen, there's a lot of woman left in ya, Miss Roger. A lot of woman.
- Will Cade: Roger, how 'bout you and me goin' frog huntin'?
- Roger Meredith: Frog hunting?
- Will Cade: Yea, I got gun in the jeep and I know this breeding pond. There's some big devils! As soon as it gets dark, they'll be out.
- Libby Meredith: Let us all go!
- Will Cade: Well, it's pretty damp out there in the swamp. But, I got a jug of shine that'll help to keep us warm.
- Libby Meredith: You are the only man, other than my husband, who's ever rubbed my feet.
- Will Cade: Miss Roger, if you belonged to me, would you let me - wash your back?
- Libby Meredith: Well, that's just something - one doesn't talk about.
- Will Cade: Anyone to talk to? Tell me, do you let - Roger - wash your back?
- Libby Meredith: Of course.
- Libby Meredith: You are a wonder, you are, Will Cade.
- Will Cade: Well, you might say I'm special.
- Libby Meredith: Oh, and vain.
- Will Cade: Nah, you're wrong, Miss Roger. It's just that you're never gonna meet nobody like me, at least ways, I never did. Though I'd like to.
- Libby Meredith: Just what would you do?
- Will Cade: I'd watch 'im. I'd stand back and watch 'im. See what he's gonna do.
- Will Cade: You know, Miss Libby, you know that - that I love you.
- Libby Meredith: You mustn't say that! You mustn't even think that! I love Roger and I wouldn't do anything...
- Will Cade: Of course you love Roger. It just makes me happy to love you. It's just something to think about. You know, at night I go to sleep, thinkin' of you. In the mornin', I wake up thinkin' of you! Well, I mean it's better than nothin'!
- Libby Meredith: Oh, Will, it's childish. It's - it's fantasy. It's unreal and harmful.
- Will Cade: Why? Is it hurting you?
- Libby Meredith: No.
- Will Cade: Well, it sure ain't hurtin' me! So, what's the harm?
- Libby Meredith: It's harmful in a psychological way. Any deviation from reality can turn to - oh, the heck with it, it's just plain stupid, that's what it is.
- Roger Meredith: We'll go dancing! I'm pretty good, remember? The Nile Casino, The Meadowbrook, The Astor Roof. Of course, I might not be tuned into all the new groovy steps, but, our age.
- Libby Meredith: What's wrong with our age?
- Libby Meredith: Do you think there's a lot of woman still left in me?
- Roger Meredith: Who ever said there wasn't?
- Libby Meredith: It is clumsy and pedantic.
- Roger Meredith: Pedantic?
- Libby Meredith: Yes, pedantic.
- Roger Meredith: Pedantic.
- Ellen Meredith: I've been accepted at Harvard - the law school!
- [turns around, walks into the kitchen]
- Ellen Meredith: Didn't you hear me? Mother? I thought that you'd be thrilled. I thought that father was going to be my only problem. I mean, you know how he feels about careers for women.
- Libby Meredith: And Mark? How does he feel?
- Ellen Meredith: Once he got over all that foolishness, thinking that I was emasculating him, then he got excited about the prospect. I mean, marriage should be a partnership. Why shouldn't the woman contribute?
- Libby Meredith: But, she does Ell! As a mother and as a wife! Do you know what that means?
- Ellen Meredith: It doesn't mean slavery.
- Ellen Meredith: It isn't everyday that Harvard accepts a female law student!
- Libby Meredith: [mockingly] My daughter - the attorney.
- Libby Meredith: [to Ellen] You and I, we're both afraid of the same thing: pointlessness of finally being nothing at all. You want to be somebody. Isn't that what you said? So do I.
- Boy: Was you, eh, expectin' my daddy? Huh? Huh? Was you expectin' my daddy?
- Libby Meredith: Get out of my way! You're drunk!
- Boy: Don't I know my daddy? Like a bee to the flower that old man. He wouldn't let a gal like you get by, now would he?