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Good heavens! You can't expect me to remember every detail about everybody, can you?

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Johnnie Aysgarth: You thought I was going to kiss you, didn't you? Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: Weren't you? Johnnie Aysgarth: Of course not. I was merely reaching around you, trying to fix your hair. Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: What's wrong with my hair? Johnnie Aysgarth: Well, I'm glad you asked me that. It would've been extremely discourteous for me to bring the subject up. Your hair's all wrong. It has such wonderful possibilities that I, well, I got excited. For the moment I became a, a passionate hairdresser.

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Johnnie Aysgarth: Don't do that. Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: Why not? Johnnie Aysgarth: Because your ucipital mapilary is quite beautiful. Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: What's an ucipital mapilary? Johnnie Aysgarth: That. Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: You don't need to touch it.

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Johnnie Aysgarth: What do you think of me by contrast to your horse? Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: If I ever got the bit between your teeth, I'd have no trouble in handling you at all.

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Johnnie Aysgarth: He doesn't like me. Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: I know. Johnnie Aysgarth: He doesn't trust me from here to there. [Speaking to portrait] Do you? Well, you're right. I can only bring her unhappiness. Well, warn her. Speak up, man. It's your last chance. [To Lina] Hear him? Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: Very distinctly. Johnnie Aysgarth: He's not exaggerating a thing, dear. It's all true, every word he isn't saying. Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: I love him, father. Johnnie Aysgarth: Did you see him jump? Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: I did. Johnnie Aysgarth: Well, watch this one. [Speaking to portrait] Sir, I have the honor of asking for your daughter's hand in marriage. Well, what do you say to that? [He begins tapping on the portrait and it falls off the wall] My oh my. You heard him that time, didn't you?

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Johnnie Aysgarth: Well, if the worst comes to the worst and there's no other way out, I'll have to... Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: What? Johnnie Aysgarth: Borrow some more.

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Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: When he enticed his victim across the footbridge, knowing that the bridge has been sawn through... Isobel Sedbusk: He also knew that his victim couldn't swim. Don't forget that. Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: Well, what I want to know is this. Would you call that an actual murder? Isobel Sedbusk: Well, from a moral standpoint there's no question at all. It is murder.

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Isobel Sedbusk: Imagine a substance in daily use everywhere. Anyone can lay his hands on it, and within a minute after taking, the victim's beautifully out of the way. Mind you, it's undetectable after death. Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth: Is whatever it is, painful? Isobel Sedbusk: Oh, not in the least. In fact I should think it'd be a most pleasant death.

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Photographer: I wonder if I could have just a little bit more of your smile? Johnnie Aysgarth: Oh, now, not at this hour of the morning.