Walk a Crooked Path (1969)
Faith Brook: Elizabeth Hemming
Quotes
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Elizabeth Hemming : That girl must go.
John Hemming : Oh, why?
Elizabeth Hemming : Isn't it obvious?
John Hemming : Seems perfectly adequate.
Elizabeth Hemming : Hm Perfectly - for a brothel. Happens to be a boys' boarding school. Mildred should never have engaged her while I was away.
John Hemming : Mildred's been with us for years. We can hardly dismiss her niece without a good reason.
Elizabeth Hemming : Reason? Girl's a menace. This hotbed of masculine puberty.
John Hemming : I'm sure Mildred meant well.
Elizabeth Hemming : I asked her to get me a housemaid, not a budding sex symbol.
John Hemming : Is that really why you want to get rid of her?
Elizabeth Hemming : What other reason would I have?
John Hemming : The reason that she looked upon me with a moment's kindness.
Elizabeth Hemming : That's a rotten thing to say.
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John Hemming : I have to mark these exercise books. Better do it upstairs, my study's in chaos.
Elizabeth Hemming : Stank of stale tobacco and mildewed books.
John Hemming : Is that why you put the painters in? Or was it to deprive me of my only refuge?
Elizabeth Hemming : Your refuge?
[scoffs]
Elizabeth Hemming : Alright, go on. Scuttle! Dodge the truth, as you always do.
John Hemming : What truth?
Elizabeth Hemming : Your failure! Seventeen years we've been at this school. Now we're trapped here for the rest of our lives and you don't even care. You've given up.
John Hemming : So that's it. That's what this is all about. You've heard.
Elizabeth Hemming : You've been passed over again. They're bringing in a headmaster from the outside and the first I hear about it is from others, in public.
John Hemming : I'm sorry.
Elizabeth Hemming : I was so sure you'd get it this time and everyone knew I was sure. And then you let me hear the news from them - junior masters' wives.
John Hemming : I'm sorry.
Elizabeth Hemming : Sorry? Sorry? Is that all you can say? My God! What kind of a creature are you?
John Hemming : Elizabeth, may I go and mark my books now?
Elizabeth Hemming : Oooh, mark your bloody books. It's about all you're good for.
[the phone starts ringing]