Sarah Gadon credited as playing...
Elizabeth Murray
- Elizabeth Murray: If I were in your place, I would choose the man I love. I only hope he's worth it.
- Elizabeth Murray: Aren't you quietly relieved that you shan't be at the caprice of some silly sir and his fortune? The rest of us haven't a choice - not a chance of inheritance if we have brothers, and forbidden from any activity that allows us to support ourselves. We are but their property.
- Elizabeth Murray: Do you think I may see Mr. James in town?
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: Perhaps.
- Elizabeth Murray: I could fall in love with such a man, Dido.
- Lady Mary Murray: Love. Hm!
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: Bette, you shall feel no such sentiment, for you shall either end poor or broken-hearted.
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: We are to finally come out?
- Lord Mansfield: Elizabeth is to come out.
- Lady Ashford: Dido is not.
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: But... why?
- Lord Mansfield: You understand the ways of the world for a female, Dido. Elizabeth has no income.
- Lady Ashford: [to Elizabeth] You are to meet as many gentlemen as possible before we make the match.
- Lord Mansfield: [to Dido] When all this is gone to her father, there'll be nothing left for her.
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: And... me?
- Lady Ashford: Any gentlemen of good breeding would be unlikely to form a serious attachment to Dido, and a man without... would lower her position in society.
- Elizabeth Murray: She is not merely my cousin, Mama. She is my sister.
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: James Ashford is not kind. He is not appropriate.
- Elizabeth Murray: Appropriate? The brother of the man you are to marry is not appropriate for me?
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: He does not desire you, Bette! Or at least, even if he does, you would regret such a mistake. He... he... laid his hands on me, Bette. In the most ungentlemanly fashion.
- Elizabeth Murray: Why should you say such a thing?
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: He hurt me!
- Elizabeth Murray: You are a liar!
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: Why would I lie to you?
- Elizabeth Murray: I don't know! But do you not see? Have you never been able to see? He would never touch you! You are beneath him!
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: [stunned and angry] I am beneath him?
- Elizabeth Murray: Yes. Yes! You are...
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: What? Tell me! Tell me what I am!
- Elizabeth Murray: You are... you are... YOU ARE ILLEGITIMATE!
- Elizabeth Murray: You are illegitimate! Have you never wondered why you were not permitted to eat with our guests?
- Dido Elizabeth Belle: My mother and father never married, you are correct. But my father acknowledged me as his child. It is yours who refuses to legitimize your position, Bette, and that is why you are poor. And that is why it is not me who is beneath Mr. James, Bette. It is *not* me.