The Letter (1929)

Lady Tsen Mei: Li-Ti

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Quotes 

• Li-Ti : Has the white woman arrived?

• Li-Ti : I know white lady thinks too good for Li-Ti's house!

  Leslie Crosbie : Give me my letter, directly.

  Li-Ti : Maybe Li-Ti think her house too good for white lady!

  Leslie Crosbie : It's a horrible place. Why did I ever come here?

  Li-Ti : You come to buy your life!

  Leslie Crosbie : Very well, if I did, let us come to business. It's ten thousand dollars you want, isn't it. Here it is. Here.

• Li-Ti : White lady, very proud. But, not too proud to share same man with Li-Ti.

  Leslie Crosbie : You, Chinese woman, you.

  Li-Ti : I'm a Chinese woman. But, not to Mr. Hammond. Many love names he had for me. Shall I tell you some of them?

  Leslie Crosbie : Stop, please! How he possibly he ever touched a vile, yellow thing like you?

  Li-Ti : It is possible!

• Li-Ti : Cheap woman! Liar woman! Murderer woman!

• Li-Ti : Your husband! That husband you cheat so. How they will laugh at him. Yes. How all Singapore will laugh!

• Leslie Crosbie : Give me the letter.

  Li-Ti : [Li-Ti drops the letter on the floor and points at it]  White woman at Chinese woman's feet.

  [Leslie squats down to pick it up while caged Chinese slave women point and laugh]