Gunnar Björnstrand credited as playing...
Fredrik Lobelius
- Fredrik Lobelius: No man is great in the presence of their wife.
- Karin: No. God is probably not married.
- Karin: Jealous?
- Fredrik Lobelius: A bit.
- Karin: It pleases me. It pleases me, my dear. It pleases me, my Othello.
- Fredrik Lobelius: We should have ended up in broken elevators more often during our 13-year marriage, you and I. What do you think?
- Fredrik Lobelius: If I can confess something to you, Karin, it is that the worst thing I know next to snakes, rats and communists is to be trapped in a very small space. I'm actually sweating a little.
- Karin: The strong displays a weakness. Hooray. Hooray.
- Fredrik Lobelius: Each of us lives our own lives. We raise our children. We have our home together. The rest is complete freedom., complete discretion. C'est tout.
- Fredrik Lobelius: Today the firm will be without a captain at the helm.
- Karin: What will he be doing?
- Fredrik Lobelius: He's gone ashore.
- Karin: Sleeping in the arms of a bad girl.
- Fredrik Lobelius: The entire day he'll sleep next to a bad girl.
- [kisses Karin's cleavage]
- Fredrik Lobelius: I think you could have worn more clothes on an evening like tonight. I was terrified that the décolletage would fall into the ice cream. Most likely you were half-naked just to annoy me.
- Karin: How did you guess?
- Fredrik Lobelius: At your age, you should wear more clothes.
- Fredrik Lobelius: What about his concubine?
- Karin: I ran into her on Sturegatan Street yesterday. She looked ready to give birth.
- Fredrik Lobelius: What?
- Karin: Give birth. You know, that indisposition that happens to women on occasion.
- Fredrik Lobelius: I'll be damned. I thought she looked decent.
- Karin: Her reputation is supposedly not the best.
- Karin: Did you hurt yourself?
- Fredrik Lobelius: No! But my cigar and my glasses are destroyed. That's what happens when women fix things.
- Karin: Did I build the elevator?
- Fredrik Lobelius: The builder's mother was most likely a woman.
- Karin: Can't I sit on you lap?
- Fredrik Lobelius: That too?
- Karin: Fifteen years ago you'd have been lucky to sit like this with me.
- Fredrik Lobelius: Don't be silly. Fifteen years ago you weighed less.
- Karin: You're no Adonis yourself.
- Karin: Don't you know that women really blossom after 35?
- Fredrik Lobelius: No. I refuse to know it.
- Karin: Too bad. We could have a lot of fun, you and I.
- Fredrik Lobelius: I like women.
- Karin: And despise them.
- Fredrik Lobelius: No more than I despise myself, which isn't much.
- Fredrik Lobelius: It feels nice when you rub. You were a good physical therapist once upon a time. You'll get to massage me in the mornings like before.
- Karin: Thank you, dear God. Does it feel better now?
- Fredrik Lobelius: What do you like least about me?
- Karin: The bossy tone. "Really? Yes. Indeed." What do you like least about me?
- Fredrik Lobelius: That you tease me.
- Karin: Am I teasing you now?
- Fredrik Lobelius: Your cleavage is very becoming.
- Karin: Can you see that in the dark?
- Fredrik Lobelius: No. Not see.
- [kisses Karin's cleavage]
- Karin: A little dalliance in the elevator. It'll be something to tell the grandchildren.
- Fredrik Lobelius: No. Be quiet.
- Karin: I'm not going to say a word.