Winter Meeting (1948)

John Hoyt: Stacy Grant

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• Stacy Grant : [to Peggy]  Let me give you a piece of advice, culled from years of devestating experience. Next to loss of money, deafness, and skin disease, passion can be the most dangerous.

• Stacy Grant : It seems to me I've been walking up and down stairs for hours.

  Susan Grieve : Its good for you.

  Stacy Grant : I *loath* clean living and outdoor sports.

• Stacy Grant : Susan, I like your poems very much.

  Susan Grieve : No you don't.

  Stacy Grant : I'm no judge really.

  Susan Grieve : You probably prefer the Byron school. All fire and brimstone.

• Stacy Grant : Susan, dear, I'm afraid you're very like one of those dignified elderly gentlemen, who sits in the window of his dignified club, gazing out at the crowds of underprivileged going by in the rain.

• Stacy Grant : You make a habit of riding in those frightful things? Those clanging monsters. I shall never step one foot underground again. I'm neither a mole nor angleworm.

• Stacy Grant : This lad frightens me. He doesn't act like a hero.

  Susan Grieve : Because he is one.

• Stacy Grant : I'm only trying to warn you he's just a nice American kid.

  Susan Grieve : Oh, those nice American kids - torn from Mom and a girlfriend, from the ice cream cone and the hot dog, and the car and a good paying job, learning to kill and be killed - an easy, cosy pattern. You have no more idea of what goes on in the heads of those nice American kids than the man in the moon.

• Susan Grieve : Where did you run into him?

  Stacy Grant : He was at a party, bored stiff, on his way to being tight. I asked him on impulse. Now I wonder why. Frankly the idea of dinner with Peggy and Novak...

  Susan Grieve : Peggy?

  Stacy Grant : My exceedingly beautiful and arrogant secretary. She's going to be for the hero. Blind date, I believe it's called. Grisly idea.

  Susan Grieve : And I'm supposed to be for you. To make the whole thing look less obvious.

• Stacy Grant : I'm a bore and victim of everybody: my friends, my secretary, my business clients, why even of a casual stranger whom I meet and immediately ask out to dinner.

• Susan Grieve : Don't you worry about tomorrow night. I'll wear my most seductive dress, I'll put perfume behind my ears, I will not argue, and I will be a credit to you.

  Stacy Grant : That's a good girl.

• Stacy Grant : Susan loves nature and the downtrodden. Sometimes I think she loves them the way a dentist loves a bad tooth.

• Stacy Grant : My guess is he'll get tight and make love to Peggy.

  Susan Grieve : My guess too.

• Stacy Grant : There he is. At the bar, as usual.

  Susan Grieve : You seem to forget, lonely, young men in uniform like to sit somewhere besides the hotel room.

• Susan Grieve : I think he dislikes us intensely.

  Stacy Grant : Oh dear, here they come. I can't remember when I've had a more exhausting evening.

• Susan Grieve : There's an almost eerie sexiness about her.

  Stacy Grant : You're so right. Did you notice the way they reared their heads when they were introduced? Like a couple of cobras in search of their mate.

• Susan Grieve : I think I better go home. I have to be up at seven. I know its unfortunate to be the first to suggest to leave.

  Stacy Grant : But, of course, Susan, dear. No matter how dull the party, the first one to leave is momentarily loathed by everyone.

• Slick Novak : You - ready for dictation now, Mr. Grant?

  Stacy Grant : Dictation, my dear?

• Stacy Grant : Why the murdered always have to return to the scene of the crime?

• Stacy Grant : Susan, dear, I feel you have things to tell me. Why don't you just consider me as some doting old uncle, for the moment; the one who once photographed you on a bearskin rug.

  Susan Grieve : Oh, Stacy, there are times when you are positively shameless.

• Stacy Grant : Darling, you look divine. Is it a new hat?

  Susan Grieve : Yes, it is. It cost far too much.

• Stacy Grant : Perfume? Twice in a row. It's so exotic of you.

• Stacy Grant : Well, darling, I must admit you have completely revolutionized my entire opinion of you.

• Stacy Grant : He may have been a hero and the uniform is devastating; but, that's the trouble. The really dreadful let down comes when you see them dressed in civvies - all set to go to work in a soap factory in Akron.

• Stacy Grant : What I simply can't understand is how a man like that ever got to first base with you? He's not out of the top drawer and you are out of the top drawer, Susan, darling and I cannot see...

  Susan Grieve : At the moment I feel as if I come from underneath the chiffonier.

• Susan Grieve : Do I look so awful?

  Stacy Grant : You look fine.

  Susan Grieve : I did everything I could to cover up; but, nothing does much good. You don't say it isn't true because your expression was one of genuine horror.

• Stacy Grant : People make much too much fuss about love. So many things are more interesting!

  Susan Grieve : Such as?

  Stacy Grant : Well, society, gardening, a good murder mystery - even snails in garlic butter.

• Slick Novak : Peggy, have you read poetry?

  Peggy Markham : Read poetry? Why should I ?

  Stacy Grant : Miss Grieve is a famous poetess.

  Peggy Markham : Oh, for heaven sakes!

  Susan Grieve : There have been moments when I have wished I hadn't even learned to read or write. This is one of them.

  Peggy Markham : Oh, but I just adore poetry.