Joan Fontaine credited as playing...
Mavis Norman
- Mavis Norman: Do you care what stupid, prejudiced people think?
- David Boyeur: You've never had to fight stupidity or prejudice.
- Mavis Norman: Do you think of me as an enemy.
- David Boyeur: No.
- Mavis Norman: What are you thinking?
- David Boyeur: That you feel you're lost. But, you're not. Because, you're looking for something real. And as long as you're looking for something real, you're not lost.
- [last lines]
- Mavis Norman: You're right and I'm wrong. I'm wrong and you're right.
- David Boyeur: And that's the end, is it?
- Mavis Norman: Yes, that's the end.
- Mavis Norman: Do you still feel that anyone whose skin is different from your's is an enemy?
- David Boyeur: Do you think I do?
- Mavis Norman: I don't know. At carnival time my brother-in-law's car was damaged, his telephone wires cut. You hate Maxwell, don't you? You think of him as an enemy.
- David Boyeur: I think of him as a snob! As an arrogant plantation owner.
- Mavis Norman: It was destroyed during a slave uprising in 1843 during the French rule. I wonder what could have caused it?
- David Boyeur: A many number of reasons: a single insult, a whipping, a girl. Who knows?
- David Boyeur: Here's my world. These are my people and this is where I belong. If I went to England, who would I be? What would I be?
- Mavis Norman: David Boyeur.
- David Boyeur: No. I'd be an exile in a bowler hat, sipping tea, carrying a rolled umbrella, talking with all the other exiles about how much we could do if we were only there. But, I'm here. I don't have to go.
- David Boyeur: I'd be a fool.
- Mavis Norman: Why?
- David Boyeur: Because it would be inevitable.
- Mavis Norman: What would be?
- David Boyeur: That night that she'd forget herself and - call me a nigger.