The Rains Came (1939)

Myrna Loy: Lady Edwina Esketh

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• Lady Edwina Esketh : [Noticing a handsome Indian man at a nearby table]  Who's the pale copper Apollo?

  Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : Major Safti.

  Lady Edwina Esketh : Not bad - not bad at ALL.

  Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : Well, don't waste your time. He's a surgeon and a scientist. Any interest he *might* have in romance is purely biological.

  Lady Edwina Esketh : You make him sound even MORE exciting.

• Lady Edwina Esketh : You sober enough to take me to the party?

  Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : [taking a drink]  Almost.

• Lady Edwina Esketh : Some night you're going to fall flat on your face and people will begin to suspect you drink.

• Lady Edwina Esketh : [Speaking to Tom Ransome]  That's why we didn't get on. You've always wanted a woman to treat you like a god. *I* treated you as if you were just as bad as myself.

• Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : Edwina... I'm afraid I've come to spill jam on your party dress.

  Lady Edwina Esketh : What do you mean?

  Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : The Maharani is sending you away in the morning.

• Fern Simon : [Lady Esketh is giving away her jewels to Fern]  But I can't take them.

  Lady Edwina Esketh : Don't be an idiot. If you and Tom have children, your son might be the Earl of Nolan. He'd have a wife, and she could wear them to boring dinner parties, and tell how they'd been left to her by a shameless wench called Lady Esketh, who died in Ranchipur during the Great Disaster of 1938. We're such snobs at home. We like stories like that.

• Lady Edwina Esketh : I've been hearing dreadful things about you. It seems you've become a shockingly useful citizen.

• Lady Edwina Esketh : What would you prescribe for a patient about to die of galloping boredom?

  Major Rama Safti : Well, I imagine that the Maharani will see to it that you're properly entertained.

  Lady Edwina Esketh : How?

  Major Rama Safti : Well, the usual routine with guests, I believe, is to show them first the waterworks, then, in order, the narrow gauge railway, the hospital, the zoo, and the asylum for the insane.

  Lady Edwina Esketh : [slight sarcasm]  How exciting.

  Major Rama Safti : Yes, isn't it?

• Lady Edwina Esketh : [Lady Esketh to Tom Ransome about Major Safti]  He's the one man I ever met I haven't been able to make an impression on.