Diana Wynyard credited as playing...
Mrs. Betty Fleury
- Mrs. Fleury: I'd rather your father - I'd rather my husband, didn't know.
- Jocelyn Fleury: You were always so devoted. I never conceived the possibility of another man in your life.
- Mrs. Fleury: Children don't. They think mistakes are their privilege.
- Maxwell Fleury: [reading from a newspaper] "Presumably they did not know that Julian Fleury's mother, who died in childbirth, was a Jamaican with native ancestry" Is it true?
- Julian Fleury: It's true.
- Maxwell Fleury: What were you lashing out when you tried to slap me? Your own guilt, your betrayal of us?
- Julian Fleury: Betrayal? Your mother never knew?
- Maxwell Fleury: She knew. Didn't you mother?
- Mrs. Fleury: I knew.
- Julian Fleury: But how?
- Mrs. Fleury: An anonymous letter. Came ten years ago.
- Julian Fleury: And you never mentioned it?
- Julian Fleury: I saw no reason to. I wanted to keep things as they were.
- Maxwell Fleury: Faithful wife. Noble mother.
- Julian Fleury: Maxwell, stop it.
- Jocelyn Fleury: How do you expect him to feel? How do you think I feel? To believe that you belong to one kind of a world and then suddenly... when I asked you if there was any reason that I shouldn't marry Euan, you said no.
- Julian Fleury: I said that was no *good* reason.
- Jocelyn Fleury: How can you say that? Euan's heir to a title. Can you picture a black man sitting in the House of Lords if we had a son?
- Julian Fleury: There's no need to exaggerate. My mother was three-quarters white, I've only one-sixteenth colored blood. The chances are your children will be *completely* white.
- Mrs. Fleury: I must ask you for the same consideration you asked me. I'd rather your father... I'd rather my husband didn't know.
- Jocelyn Fleury: You were always so devoted. I never conceived the possibility of another man in your life.
- Mrs. Fleury: Children don't. They think mistakes are their privilege.
- Mrs. Fleury: Very well. I owe you this. You need have no qualms about marrying Euan. There isn't a drop of African blood in your veins. My husband isn't your father.
- Mrs. Fleury: Of course, you know that you've behaved stupidly. You've behaved like a peasant girl in the cane fields. Now, I suppose that's neither here nor there. It's the future that matters.
- Jocelyn Fleury: In about three months, I want to go to Canada. I want to start making the arrangements now.
- Mrs. Fleury: Canada? Why on earth do you want to go there?
- Jocelyn Fleury: Because I'm pregnant.
- Mrs. Fleury: Does Euan know?
- [Jocelyn shakes her head no]
- Mrs. Fleury: You're sure that you are?
- Jocelyn Fleury: There isn't any doubt.
- Mrs. Fleury: Well, you're certainly calm about it. You might show some shame, some guilt.
- Jocelyn Fleury: If it will make you feel any happier, I feel quite guilty.