Sue:
Haven't we been punished enough?
Sue Bridehead:
Please don't call me a clever girl, Mr. Phillotson, there are too many of us about these days.
Sue:
Why are you looking at me like that?
Jude Fawley:
Does it scare you?
Sue:
No. I am not afraid of any man.
Jude Fawley:
Why?
Sue:
Because no man would touch a woman unless she gives him reason to. A touch or a look that say come on. If you never look, they'll never come. You are the timid sex.
[
Sue has just spurned Jude again]
Sue Bridehead:
Promise me you'll never stop trying.
Sue Bridehead:
It's right that I suffer.
Sue:
I would have liked to have talked with her before she died.
Jude Fawley:
She would have enjoyed that.
Sue:
What did she say?
Jude Fawley:
She said we both made bad husbands and wives
Sue:
Do I irritate you?
Jude Fawley:
No.
Sue:
Even though I'm always trying to prove how much cleverer than you I am.
Jude Fawley:
You are!
Sue:
Don't say that!
Jude Fawley:
Why not?
Sue:
Because it's not the sort of thing you should admit to!
Jude Fawley:
Even if it's true?
Sue Bridehead:
They locked me up for being out with you, so I jumped out of the window, climbed over a fence, crossed the deepest river in England and here I am!
[
last lines]
Jude Fawley:
We are man and wife, if ever two people were on this earth.
Sue:
You're still Joseph, the dreamer of dreams. And the tragic Don Quixote. Sometimes you are a St. Stephen, who sees Heaven open up, even as they're stoning him.
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