Middlemarch (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.4 (1994)

Juliet Aubrey: Dorothea

Quotes 

• Will Ladislaw : [after Casaubon's funeral]  A tragedy, your husband's death. Still, we can be sure that he died in a state of great happiness. An old man, a scholar, married to a passionate and beautiful young woman. Perhaps he over-exerted himself. Or perhaps the sheer bliss of the married state proved too much for his delicate constitution.

  Dorothea : [stiffly]  I'm afraid you misunderstand the situation. Mr. Casaubon never... I mean, he had no interest... I mean, the marital relationship was not a passionate one.

  [Angrily] 

  Dorothea : His heart did not give out in bed!

  Will Ladislaw : [with wry tenderness, gazing at Dorothea's tearful face]  Perhaps he had no heart at all.