Easy Virtue Dialogue
| 1 - Keep The Home Fires Burning |
| "Not nearly as exciting as crossing your mother." |
| "Right, I shall go and brush up on my various small talk." |
| 2 - Telegram |
| "No, are you?" |
| "Hear, hear. Well done." |
| "Last meal and a cigarette, perhaps?" |
| "Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker." You're mother." |
| "Perhaps your mother should read this first." |
| "- Francophile?' |
| "- Photgrapher?" |
| "- Pharmacist?" |
| "Deploying a smile dear. One member of this family may actually be happy." |
| "Yes, chop, chop, Furber. Go and dress the mutton as ham." |
| "Your tunnel vision." |
| "You're English, dear. Fake it." |
| "The prodigal son returns in a blaze of gravel." |
| "And very welcome. Jim Whittaker." |
| "I fought alongside many of your countrymen, Larita, and I must say it's an honour to have a comrade in the family." |
| "Far from it." |
| "Before the frostbite sets in...." |
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"Oui, nous les évitons á tous prix." |
| "Hang her." |
| "Surely not exactly. She wasn't drunk." |
| "Hmm, I like her." |
| 3 - Larita Whittaker |
| "She's Lovely John. I'm very proud of you." |
| "A home of their own." |
| "Strange as it may seem, I agree with your sister." |
| "On certain things, yes. Call her." |
| "Really." |
| "I hear the cow's in a terrible way." |
| "Well, that's whet my appetite. Shall we adjourn to the dining room?" |
| "Living." |
| "I support Sheppard's position on pacifism." |
| 5 - A Game of Tennis |
| "Broken, tarnished and completely useless." |
| "Guaranteed to keep my wife at bay." |
| "If you don't mind getting your hands dirty." |
| "Your first husband from that neck of the woods?" |
| "So where is he now?" |
| "You didn't care for him, I gather?" |
| "Dieu est un comédien jouant devant à une audience qui a trop peur pour rire." |
| "Just after the war. On a personal reconnaissance trying to ascertain what exactly all those fine young men had died for. Apparently I'm of the romantic lost generation." |
| "I'm not sure." |
| 8 - Nelly No Knickers! |
| "Is it my imagination or is the cutlery particularly deafening htis evening?" |
| "God forbid, the wind might change." |
| "John..." |
| "Well, I imagine she bent her legs and lowered her full weight onto the Chihuahua that was hiding beneath her." |
| " Yes, my wife would like you to rest in peace." |
| "What, and miss all the fun?" |
| "The annihilation of an entire indigenous people." |
| "No, Furber, thank you. I think I'll surprise my alimentary canal." |
| 9 - Hunt |
| "It's magnificent." |
| "Don't be a buffoon, Marion. Of course she took her clothes off." |
| "Congratulations. A marriage of minor convenience." |
| "A victory lap, by the look of things." |
| 10 - The Money's Gone |
| "The boy. The same, sweet boy." |
| "To be perfectly honest, I haven't the faintest idea." |
| "No." |
| "Have you noticed how few men of my age there are in this village? Fourteen years ago, we all took the King's shilling. We all signed up together. My brother, friends, staff.... All hunkered down in the front row of The Great War." |
| "Promotion for surviving. As captain, it was my job to get them all out of the trenches. Within the first four minutes, of our first charge..... 20,000 men died. In Thorveton, down the road here.... they were stationed in Morocco. Their captain brought them all home. I didn't bring a single man back. This whole village died." |
| "Well, if there is, it has no time for pet cemeteries and Japanese lanterns." |
| "I had no choice." |
| "Well, she thought "wandering home" sounded better. And to be perfectly frank, I no longer cared." |
| 11 - Lord Hurst's Offer |
| "I can't decide what's worse, the idea that you had to sneak outside to get some privacy, or that you were caught by Veronica." |
| "No, darling, no you're quite right. I can certainly see the serious implications. It's, it's really not a laughing matter." |
| "Well. maybe it's time for the young ones to fly the nest." |
| 12 - Scandal |
| "Collecting old newspapers is the last refuge of a truly boring man." |
| "Don't be grotesque, Hilda." |
| "Any dressing?" |
| "Mayonnaise has more ballast." |
| "For what?" |
| "It's no concern of ours." |
| "In fact, I'm going outside for a cigarette. Would you care to join me?" |
| "The pack's closing." |
| "Oh, you know that, do you?" |
| "This is your doing, child. You're a bigger fool than you look." |
| "It's not as if she poisoned him herself." |
| "Right, that's it! You have dance to organise, I suggest you all get to it! Now, go on. Now!" |
| "John..." |
| "I think you ought to go and see if Larita's coping." |
| "It's been a very trying day for her, John. Go and escort your wife down." |
| "Why are you sitting in the dark?" |
| "It seems they are universally similar when their guard is up, as well." |
| "May I?" |
| "You are damn cool in a crisis." |
| "Why did you do it? Why did you marry John?" |
| "What will you do?" |
| 15 - When The Going Gets Tough |
| "Would you forward the painting please, Furber?" |