Veiled Aristocrats (1932)

Lucille Lewis: Rena Walden

Quotes 

• Frank Fowler : It seems we would all be so much happier, if they would be just willing to meet us half way. But, life is like that. If people could all see alike and feel alike, there'd be no apology no raised prejudice.

  Rena Walden : How even tempered you are, Frank! You have every reason to be violently angry and swearing. And, yet, you are as calm and considerate as a trained diplomat.

  Frank Fowler : What you've told me, calls for calm deliberation and consideration, Rena.

• Rena Walden : They can never stop me from loving you.

  Frank Fowler : Fine and noble, dear.

• Rena Walden : When Judge Strait sent you away to school as a white boy, you were young and unburdened. A new environment had settled upon you and shaped you for another life, as it has me. You grew up and went to school as a white boy, so, that by the time you were old enough to go with girls, you had forgotten your childhood days sufficiently to feel at home. It wasn't a case of being suddenly picked up and placed in a new and strange environment, as you have placed me. All this frightens me. I'm afraid to talk, to smile, to do anything, for fear that I'll make a mistake and embarrass you.

• Rena Walden : I only know that I am *not* a white girl, but, a negress.

• Rena Walden : [Final lines]  Don't awaken me, till we reach Fayetteville, dear.