Deborah Kerr credited as playing...
Hilary Rhyall
- Charles Delacro: Yes, Ma'am.
- Hilary Rhyall: Yes, and in England we only call the Queen "Ma'am".
- Charles Delacro: In the United States we try to make up for having no royalty by calling everyone Ma'am.
- Hilary Rhyall: Perhaps you'd like to help yourself.
- Charles Delacro: Alright, thank you.
- Hilary Rhyall: I imagine it's something you're quite used to. Helping yourself, I mean.
- Charles Delacro: Was that a crack or a compliment?
- Hilary Rhyall: Well, which do you think it is?
- Charles Delacro: Well, in my country I'd probably consider it a compliment. Here it's probably a crack.
- Hilary Rhyall: Darling? I'm afraid I want to work on you, too.
- Victor Rhyall: Hmm, it's unlike you to warn me; but, work on me.
- Hilary Rhyall: Oh, you're so good to me.
- Victor Rhyall: [reading aloud, "Spring-Time" by William Ernest Henley] "Oh, this gracious and thirsting and aching unrest, All life's at the bud, And my heart, full of April, Is breaking my breast."
- Victor Rhyall: Well, it's May the 9th. At least that's what I'm going to write on your check.
- Hilary Rhyall: Who said anything about a check?
- Victor Rhyall: You did: "this gracious and thirsting and aching unrest". That can only mean one thing, darling. New clothes.
- Victor Rhyall: You know something.
- Hilary Rhyall: What?
- Victor Rhyall: I wish to make a statement.
- Hilary Rhyall: What is it?
- Victor Rhyall: I adore you.
- Hilary Rhyall: Oh do you, darling. I'm so glad.
- Hilary Rhyall: Oh, you are clever, aren't you.
- Victor Rhyall: On the contrary, you're the one whose clever.
- Charles Delacro: Would you like me to fix you a drink?
- Hilary Rhyall: Fix? You sound as if you're going to drug me or something.
- Charles Delacro: I'm an oil man.
- Hilary Rhyall: Oh, you're a millionaire!
- Charles Delacro: As a matter of fact, I am.
- Hilary Rhyall: Oh. Well. Won't you sit down?
- Charles Delacro: Thank you. Tell me, why were you so uh - why were you so sure I was a millionaire?
- Hilary Rhyall: Well, nearly all the Americans I meet seem to be. Especially the oily ones.
- Hilary Rhyall: You know by rights, you should be in the library by now. Enjoying "Portrait of a Burgermeister" by Van Dyck, "Lady Ryall and Children" by Nasmyth circa 1800 unfinished, "Henrietta Maria, the Wife of Charles I" by Rowlandson, and two mirrors by Robert Adam. Why don't you go and look at them?
- Charles Delacro: Because I'd rather look at you.
- Hilary Rhyall: Well, I'm not on exhibition.
- Charles Delacro: May I take a picture of you? "Portrait of the 20th Century Lady of Fashion" by Delacro.
- Charles Delacro: Your grandfather was probably a nobleman. Mine was a clockmaker.
- Hilary Rhyall: And now you're a millionaire, and I'm a mushroom grower. Oh well, there you are. That's the way the world wags.
- Victor Rhyall: How was the fishing?
- Charles Delacro: Well, on the whole, it was pretty fair. There were some big fish around, but I'm afraid your friend, Josh Peters, did a lot better than I did.
- Victor Rhyall: Well, and so he should. He knows that water as well as he know his own wife. Much prefers it, too.
- Hilary Rhyall: Oh, Victor, don't be vulgar.
- Victor Rhyall: Did you say you had rather a lot to do, darling?
- Hilary Rhyall: Oh! Yes, yes, I have. I must go and finish the mushrooms.
- Victor Rhyall: [reading aloud] "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife, nor his ox, nor his ass..."
- Hilary Rhyall: Perhaps you don't understand Englishmen very well.
- Charles Delacro: Well, who does?
- Hilary Rhyall: Englishwomen.
- Hilary Rhyall: I can give no guarantee of what I'm going to do or how I'm going to behave. Do you find that shocking?
- Hattie Durant: Well, coming from you I do, rather. Ah, surprising anyway. Of course, it's the sort of feeling I've been having ever since I was about 11.
- Hilary Rhyall: Well, you must be out of your mind. Dueling? I've never heard of anything so preposterous. You're the Earl of Rhyall, not the Count of Monte Cristo.
- Hilary Rhyall: I thought you were an intelligent, civilized person, and you behave like a barbarian.