Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Helen Coker: Tilda

Quotes 

• Nicholas : Does your friend think I'm in love with her?

  Tilda : Does she think so? Of course.

  Nicholas : But I have made no such declaration.

  Tilda : Your eyes said what your mouth could not.

  Nicholas : Perhaps my mouth should say what my eyes have not. I have scarcely seen the lady three times but should I have seen her 30 or 30,000, it would be the same. I have not one thought, hope or wish connected with her unless it is part of the picture I keep in my mind of one day being able to turn my back upon this accursed place and never to think of it again with any feeling but loathing and disgust.

• Fanny Squeers : Quick, I must do something to engage his sympathy and bring him to the declaration. Should I choke?

  Tilda : I think fainting might be more romantic than choking.