Deborah Kerr credited as playing...
Evelyn Boult
- Dr. Larry Woodhope: May I say you're looking very attractive this evening.
- Evelyn Boult: Thank you.
- Dr. Larry Woodhope: Arnold Boult is a very lucky man. Does he know it?
- Evelyn Boult: I'll remind him.
- Harry Simpkin: To me, there is nothing half so wonderful as a sleeping child.
- Evelyn Boult: I know, they look just like little angels and they're not really.
- Evelyn Boult: Is there any reason for this? Is there anything I should have done? Anything I've done wrong?
- Dr. Larry Woodhope: It could happen to any child.
- Evelyn Boult: But to Edward, my son? My only son.
- Evelyn Boult: I shall go up to my room and get drunk. Just quietly. By myself. Very drunk. Isn't it extraordinary what people do?
- Evelyn Boult: Are you still in love with me, Larry Woodhope? Would you like to...? And the trouble with drink is it makes you just a little bit uncouth.
- Evelyn Boult: I want to hear what the commanding officer said. I want to find out about Edward. Twenty years isn't very long to get to know anybody. I never really knew Edward properly. Not like his commanding officer. He summed him up in 30 seconds. Just as long as it takes a sparrow to fall to the ground.
- Evelyn Boult: 'Whenever I die', he says. 'All I want my friends to do for me is to have a jolly good drink'.
- Dr. Larry Woodhope: Edward.
- Evelyn Boult: Edward, my son.
- Evelyn Boult: I can never find that staircase. There you are. Do you know how many steps there are, Larry? I do. I've counted them. You see. Sometimes one can't see quite as clearly as one would wish. And then it's a great help to count. One. Two...
- Evelyn Boult: I often think of that day. It all seemed such a perfect start. And yet, it was only the beginning of the end.