Timothy Dalton credited as playing...
Charles Darrow
- Charles Darrow: [speaking his thoughts aloud] She had put me off at the very last moment. And so casually, without explanation. What happened to the warmth of her greeting at that embassy party, when after so long a time we had miraculously found each other again?
- Sophy Viner: But if you keep your promise.
- Charles Darrow: My promise?
- Sophy Viner: Your promise to say nothing about our past together. Nothing whatever about our past together.
- Charles Darrow: Of course I shall say nothing.
- Sophy Viner: As much for your own sake as for mine, I suppose.
- Charles Darrow: I was on my way to you and you turned me back at the very last moment with only a word. With no explanation. I was hurt. And bewildered. I thought you meant to give me up. And suddenly I found somebody to be sorry for. To be of use to. And I swear to you that's how it began. The rest was a moment's folly. A flash of madness. As things are, I ought to have seen the danger, but I didn't. There is no possible excuse for what I did.
- Anna Leath: I don't want to hear about such things.
- Charles Darrow: No. You're too fine. Too high. These things are too far from you. If you were to explore the intricacies of your own heart, perhaps your judgement of others would be less absolute.