The Rains Came (1939)
Myrna Loy: Lady Edwina Esketh
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Quotes
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Lady Edwina Esketh : [Noticing a handsome Indian man at a nearby table] Who's the pale copper Apollo?
Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : Major Safti.
Lady Edwina Esketh : Not bad - not bad at ALL.
Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : Well, don't waste your time. He's a surgeon and a scientist. Any interest he *might* have in romance is purely biological.
Lady Edwina Esketh : You make him sound even MORE exciting.
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Lady Edwina Esketh : You sober enough to take me to the party?
Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : [taking a drink] Almost.
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Lady Edwina Esketh : Some night you're going to fall flat on your face and people will begin to suspect you drink.
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Lady Edwina Esketh : [Speaking to Tom Ransome] That's why we didn't get on. You've always wanted a woman to treat you like a god. *I* treated you as if you were just as bad as myself.
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Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : Edwina... I'm afraid I've come to spill jam on your party dress.
Lady Edwina Esketh : What do you mean?
Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : The Maharani is sending you away in the morning.
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Fern Simon : [Lady Esketh is giving away her jewels to Fern] But I can't take them.
Lady Edwina Esketh : Don't be an idiot. If you and Tom have children, your son might be the Earl of Nolan. He'd have a wife, and she could wear them to boring dinner parties, and tell how they'd been left to her by a shameless wench called Lady Esketh, who died in Ranchipur during the Great Disaster of 1938. We're such snobs at home. We like stories like that.
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Lady Edwina Esketh : I've been hearing dreadful things about you. It seems you've become a shockingly useful citizen.
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Lady Edwina Esketh : What would you prescribe for a patient about to die of galloping boredom?
Major Rama Safti : Well, I imagine that the Maharani will see to it that you're properly entertained.
Lady Edwina Esketh : How?
Major Rama Safti : Well, the usual routine with guests, I believe, is to show them first the waterworks, then, in order, the narrow gauge railway, the hospital, the zoo, and the asylum for the insane.
Lady Edwina Esketh : [slight sarcasm] How exciting.
Major Rama Safti : Yes, isn't it?
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Lady Edwina Esketh : [Lady Esketh to Tom Ransome about Major Safti] He's the one man I ever met I haven't been able to make an impression on.