- [Last lines of the movie]
- Sue Trinder: [picking up a page of a manuscript that has fallen on the floor] What's it say?
- Maud Lilly: They're full of words saying... how I want you. How I love you.
- Sue Trinder: If I'd have said I love you, she'd have said it back. And then everything would have been different. I might have saved her... I might have found a way to keep her from her fate.
- Maud Lilly: Please don't touch me, stifle me, smother me... pretend to love me.
- Mrs. Sucksby: Pretend?