Quotes

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Paula: It's all dead in here. The whole place seems to smell of death. No, I can't stay here. Gregory: Suppose we make it a new house, with new things, beautiful things for a new beautiful life for us? Later, yes, but not just at once. Let us have our honeymoon here by ourselves for a little longer.

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Gregory: You're looking very pretty this afternoon, Nancy. Do you know that? Nancy: I don't know it at all, sir, I'm sure. Gregory: Tonight is your night out, isn't it? Nancy: That's right, sir. Gregory: And who are you meeting tonight?...I see they've changed the policeman on the beat. Is his heart going to be added to the list of those you've broken? Nancy: I did not broken any, sir. Gregory: Oh, now, I'm sure that's not true. And that complexion of yours. That's something that's not quite true, either. Oh, you do it very cleverly, I grant you. In fact, I was wondering whether you might not care to pass some of your secrets on to your mistress and help her get rid of her pallor. Nancy: Sure, I'd be very pleased to do anything I can, sir.

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Nancy: Gonna work on your tunes again tonight, sir? You're always working, aren't you? Gregory: Yes. What are you doing with your evening out? Nancy: Oh, I'm going to a music hall...[She begins singing 'Up in a balloon'] Gregory: I've never been to an English music hall. Nancy: Oh, you don't know what you've missed, sir... Gregory: And whom are you going to the music hall with? Nancy: A gentleman friend, sir. Gregory: Oh, now, you know, Nancy, don't you, that gentlemen friends are sometimes inclined to take liberties with young ladies? Nancy: Oh, no, sir, not with me. I can take care of myself - when I want to. Gregory: You know, Nancy, it strikes me that you're not at all the kind of girl that your mistress should have for a housemaid. Nancy: [flirtatiously] No, sir? She's not the only one in the house - is she?

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Gregory: I've tried so hard to keep it within these walls - in my own house. Now, because you would go out tonight, the whole of London knows it. If I could only get inside that brain of yours and understand what makes you do these crazy, twisted things. Paula: Gregory, are you trying to tell me I'm insane? Gregory: It's what I'm trying NOT to tell myself. Paula: But that's what you think, isn't it? That's what you've been hinting and suggesting for months now, ever since...the day I lost your brooch. That's when it all began. No, no, no, it began before that. The first day here when I found that letter. :[Gregory stops and abruptly turns] Gregory: What letter? Paula: That one I found among the music from that man... Gregory: Yes, you're right. That's when it began...I can see you still, standing there and saying, 'Look. Look at this letter.' And staring at nothing. Paula: What? Gregory: You had NOTHING in your hand. Paula: What? Gregory: I was staggered, but I didn't know then how muc

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Cameron: Your husband and Sergis Bauer are one and the same person. And this letter from Sergis Bauer to Alice Alquist was written two days before her murder. Paula: But he said there wasn't any letter. He said I was going out of my mind. Cameron: You're not going out of your mind. You're slowly and systematically being driven out of your mind. Paula: But why? WHY? Cameron: Perhaps because you found this letter and know too much. [He looks up] Or because then he would have control of your property, of this house, and could search in the open instead of the dark like this. Paula: Why search? What is there to search for? Cameron: For the things for which Alice Alquist was murdered. Her jewels. Paula: But I have her jewels. Cameron: Not the jewels you didn't know she had. Famous jewels, jewels for which he was searching that night. When he was frightened away by hearing someone come down the stairs. Someone he never saw. A little girl. Paula: Me. Me. But he - if he was here that night, bu

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Gregory: I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to me. Cameron: I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to her.

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Gregory: For the last time, what do you want of me? Cameron: The jewels - and justice. How does it feel, Bauer, to have planned and killed and tortured for something and then to know it's been for nothing? Gregory: For nothing?

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Paula: This night will be a long night. Cameron: But it will end. It's starting to clear. In the morning when the sun rises, sometimes it's hard to believe there ever was a night. You'll find that, too. Let me come here and see you and talk to you. Perhaps I can help somehow. Paula: [gratefully] You're very kind.