- Dawn Maxwell: Anyway, chin up, love... there's nothing ever quite so bad but thinking makes it worse
- Mrs. Elton: I wish I could understand what it was that possessed you to do a dreadful thing like that
- Hester Collyer: What possessed me, Mrs Elton? The Devil, I suppose
- Mrs. Elton: I should just think it was
- Hester Collyer: I'm not sure I meant quite that kind of devil. But when you're between any kind of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sometimes looks very inviting. It did last night
- Mrs. Elton: I can't make you out. You're not a wicked woman. What you did last night was wicked and cruel. Now supposing it had been Mr Page and not you that we found lying there this morning... how would you have felt?
- Hester Collyer: Very, very surprised
- Mrs. Elton: Nothing more?
- Hester Collyer: Oh, yes, a lot more; a whole universe more. But he's not lying there, Mrs Elton, he's playing golf. And when he comes back from golf, he must know nothing of what happened last night. You understand? Nothing.
- Dawn Maxwell: It just goes to prove one thing I've known all along. That you no more fit into this place than I do into Park Lane.
- Freddie Page: Do you know why she did it?
- Miller: No.
- Freddie Page: If you like I'll tell you. She did it because I forgot her birthday.
- Miller: Yes?
- Freddie Page: You don't seem surprised.
- Miller: I'm not - I assumed it was something of the kind.
- Freddie Page: Something so trivial?
- Miller: Nothing can be called trivial that induces an operative desire to die.
- Freddie Page: What - forgetting her birthday?
- Miller: Yes, that is trivial.
- Freddie Page: Bit of a riddler, aren't you, old boy? Alright then, it's trivial! But what's the real reason? What's behind it?
- Miller: I don't think you need me to tell you that.
- Freddie Page: I'd like to hear it anyway.
- Miller: Yourself, I should suppose.
- Freddie Page: Which just about makes me a ruddy murderer.
- Miller: A ruddy near-murderer.
- Sir William Collyer: May I ask you, Mr. Miller if you are a qualified medical practitioner?
- Miller: You may. The answer is 'no'.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content
