Alison Skilbeck: Helen

Quotes 

• Mr. McAllister : [Trevor has been invited for Sunday lunch]  If you want to be entertained in my house, you need to be more careful about the company you keep.

  Trevor Chaplin : [Noting the outdoor swimming pool]  It's a smashing house, Mr. McAllister, but I don't know what you're talking about.

  Mr. McAllister : [to his daughter]  Helen, would you leave us?

  Trevor Chaplin : [Helen starts to comply but...]  Where are you going?

  Helen : I think there's some man-to-man talk brewing.

  Trevor Chaplin : There's no such thing! I've got no secrets... though I don't know about your father?

  Mr. McAllister : Helen's right: it's man-to-man talk.

  Trevor Chaplin : Does it affect Helen?

  Mr. McAllister : It relates to her, yes.

  Trevor Chaplin : Then she should stay and listen.

  Mr. McAllister : What's all this? Women's Lib all of a sudden? Did you get it from that woman you're living with?

  Trevor Chaplin : If you want a straight answer, yes, I did.

  Mr. McAllister : Well if we're having a straight talk, let's get it clear. If you want to be entertained in this house, you move back into your flat, damned quick.

  Trevor Chaplin : I see. Any more instructions?

  Mr. McAllister : [Retreating slightly]  Suggestions, Trevor, that's all. I never tell anyone how to live his life.

  Trevor Chaplin : You got any more 'suggestions'?

  Mr. McAllister : [Still wanting his daughter to leave]  Helen...

  Helen : My mother will be needing help in the kitchen.

  Trevor Chaplin : I think you should stay, Helen. You might learn something about men... or, at least, about your father. Yes, Mr. McAllister?

  Mr. McAllister : Alright. I also suggest that you keep away from that mob on the estate.

  Trevor Chaplin : Big Al?

  Mr. McAllister : I don't know any of their names - I keep my distance.

  Trevor Chaplin : And get other people to put the pressure on?

  Mr. McAllister : Pressure? I've no idea what you mean.

  Trevor Chaplin : I mean funny phone calls and sabotaging election meetings and smashing up a fellow's greenhouse. That's what I mean!

  Mr. McAllister : [Feigning ignorance]  Sounds to me like hysterical rambling!

  Trevor Chaplin : A few people get together to organise a little mail order business off their own back. Simple, self-help organisation...

  Mr. McAllister : [Interrupting]  If people need goods and services, they should go to the proper place!

  Trevor Chaplin : Like shops?

  Mr. McAllister : Yes, like shops!

  Trevor Chaplin : Well you're bound to believe in that, aren't you? After all, you've got hundreds of bloody shops!

  Mr. McAllister : It's about equilibrium - it's not about shops!

  Trevor Chaplin : Equilibrium?

  Mr. McAllister : There has to be a balance in the way we organise society. If something disturbs that balance...

  Trevor Chaplin : [Interrupting]  You lose your swimming pool?

  Helen : [Trying to calm down the antagonism]  I think lunch is ready.

  Mr. McAllister : Trevor, get rid of your fancy-woman, get rid of your dubious friends... and come and have some lunch.

  Trevor Chaplin : [Rising to leave]  No, Mr McAllister. You get rid of your friends and I might just stay for lunch... one of these days... but not today!

• Helen : [Chasing after Trevor as he storms out of her father's house following an argument]  Don't go!

  Trevor Chaplin : I'm particular about who I eat with!

  Helen : You're being silly - he's an old softie, really.

  Trevor Chaplin : He can afford to be! It's time you liberated yourself, sweetheart...

  Helen : [Interrupting, sarcastically referring to Trevor's devotion to Jill]  Like you have?

  Trevor Chaplin : [Ignoring her]  ... unless you're going to go on living off your old man's pieces of silver for the rest of your life.

  Helen : [Referring to her previous relationship with Trevor]  My God but you've changed!

  Trevor Chaplin : Well that's the general idea, isn't it? We grow up, stuff like that.

  Helen : I liked you better the way you were before.

  Trevor Chaplin : You mean when I took orders without question?

  Helen : Yes.

  Trevor Chaplin : [Getting into his van]  He's dead and buried, that loveable Geordie schoolteacher! This is the new, dynamic Trevor Chaplin!

  Helen : I don't like him.

  Trevor Chaplin : [Referring to how love rivals Helen and Jill decided who would 'win' him]  That's up to you but I'll tell you this for nothing: nobody wins me at the toss of a coin. It may have worked in old money but not now.

  Helen : My mother will be very disappointed.

  Trevor Chaplin : Why?

  Helen : [Referring to her mother having taken time to prepare lunch]  She wanted to see you again... and she was up half the night with her Stroganoff.

  Trevor Chaplin : [Feigning ignorance of foreign dishes]  There you go! What's the use of money if you haven't got good health?

  Helen : [as Trevor starts the van]  I'll see you?

  Trevor Chaplin : [Driving away]  Goodbye forever!