Marnie Movie Quotes
Mark Rutland
Well why didn't you jump over the side?
Marnie Edgar
The idea was to kill myself, not feed the damn fish.
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Marnie Edgar
You don't love me. I'm just something you've caught! You think I'm some sort of animal you've trapped!
Mark Rutland
That's right--you are. And I've caught something really wild this time, haven't I? I've tracked you and caught you, and by God, I'm going to keep you.
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Marnie Edgar
You Freud, me Jane?
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Mark Rutland
What you do need, I suspect, is a psychiatrist.
Marnie Edgar
Oh, men! You say "no thanks" to one of them and BINGO! You're a candidate for the funny farm.
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Mark Rutland
Marnie, it's time to have a little compassion for yourself. When a child, a child of any age, Marnie, can't get love, it takes what it can get, any way it can get it. It's not so hard to understand.
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[Marnie takes a taxi back home, to a poor district by the wharf. Girls are skipping to a song]
Girls skipping
Mother, Mother, I am ill. Send for the doctor over the hill. Call for the doctor. Call for the nurse. Call for the lady with the alligator purse... Mumps, said the doctor. Measles, said the nurse. Nothing, said the lady with the alligator purse. How many years will I live? One, Two, Three, Four...
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Marnie Edgar
The only way you can help me is to leave me alone! Can't you understand? Isn't it plain enough? I cannot bear to be handled!
Mark Rutland
By anybody? Or just me?
Marnie Edgar
You. Men!
Mark Rutland
Really? You didn't seem to mind at my office that day, or at the stables. And all this last week i've handled you. Kissed you many times. Why didn't you break out in a cold sweat and back into a corner then?
Marnie Edgar
I thought I could stand it if I had to.
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Marnie Edgar
Why don't you love me, Mama? I've always wondered why you don't.
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Mr. Rutland
The best thing for the inside of a man or a woman is the outside of a horse.
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Mark Rutland
You're very sexy with your face clean.
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Lil Mainwaring
How do you take your tea, Miss Taylor?
Marnie Edgar
Usually with a cup of hot water and a tea bag.
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[first lines]
Sidney Strutt
Robbed! Cleaned out! $9,967! Precisely as I told you over the telephone. And that girl did it. Marion Holland. That's the girl. Marion Holland.
First Detective
Can you describe her, Mr. Strutt?
Sidney Strutt
Certainly I can describe her: five feet five, 110 pounds, size 8 dress, blue eyes, black wavy hair, even features, good teeth.
[detectives unable to restrain laughter]
Sidney Strutt
Well what's so damn funny? There's been a grand larceny committed on these premises.
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Lil Mainwaring
I'm queer for liars.
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Marnie Edgar
Oh... it's you. Where's my mother?
Jessica 'Jessie' Cotton
She's making a pecan pie. For me.
Marnie Edgar
That figures.
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Marnie Edgar
If you don't want to go to bed, please get out.
Mark Rutland
But I do want to go to bed, Marnie. I very much want to go to bed.
Marnie Edgar
No!
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Marnie Edgar
I don't believe in luck.
Mark Rutland
What do you believe in?
Marnie Edgar
Nothing. Oh, horses, maybe. At least they're beautiful, and nothing in this world like--people.
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Mark Rutland
When we get home, I'll explain that we had a lover's quarrel... That you ran away... That I went after you and brought you back. That'll please Dad. He admires action. Then I'll explain that we' re gonna be married before the week is out... That I can't bear to have you out of my sight. He also admires wholesome animal lust.
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Mark Rutland
Did you have a tough childhood, Mrs Taylor?
Marnie Edgar
Not particularly.
Mark Rutland
I think you did. I think you've had a hard, tough climb. But you're a smart girl, aren't you? The careful grammar, the quiet good manners. Where did you learn them?
Marnie Edgar
From my betters.
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Mark Rutland
Before I was drafted into Rutland's, Ms. Taylor, I had notions of being a zoologist. I still try to keep up with my field.
Marnie Edgar
Zoos?
Mark Rutland
Instinctual behavior.
Marnie Edgar
Oh. Does zoology include people, Mr. Rutland?
Mark Rutland
Well, in a way. It includes all the animal ancestors from whom man derived his instincts.
Marnie Edgar
A lady's instinct too?
Mark Rutland
Well, that paper deals with the instincts of predators. What you might call the criminal class of the animal world. Lady animals figure very largely as predators.
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Mark Rutland
Here we are, old bean: the homestead.
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Bernice Edgar
Oh, Marnie. You shouldn't spend all your money on me like you do.
Marnie Edgar
But that's what money's for: to spend. Like the Bible says, "Money answereth all things."
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Mark Rutland
You should try to be Marnie's friend.
Lil Mainwaring
I always thought a girl's best friend was her mother!
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Marnie Edgar
In case you didn't recognise it, that was a rejection
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Marnie Edgar
We don't need men, Mama. We can do very well for ourselves. You and me.
Bernice Edgar
A decent woman don't have need for any man. Look at you, Marnie. I told Miss Cotton, look at my girl Marnie. She's too smart to go gettin' herself mixed up with men--none of 'em!
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Marnie Edgar
I'm not a bit nervous, Mark.
Mark Rutland
You have no reason to be. You're unquestionably the best-looking woman here. The best-dressed. The most intelligent. And you're with me.
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Marnie Edgar
I don't need to read that muck to know that women are stupid and feeble and men are filthy pigs!
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Mark Rutland
Let's back up and see if you can turn that Mt. Everest of manure into a few facts.
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Marnie Edgar
I'd like to go back to sleep now.
Mark Rutland
Why? Your sleep seems even less agreeable than your waking hours.
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Mark Rutland
Sex:
Marnie Edgar
Masculine, Feminine. Adam and Eve. Jack and Jill. I'll slap your filthy face if you come near me again, Jack!
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Marnie Edgar
Why can't you just leave me alone?
Mark Rutland
Because I think you're sick, ol' dear.
Marnie Edgar
I'm sick? Well, take a look at yourself, ol' dear. You're so hot to play Mental Health Week, what about you? Talk about dream worlds! You've got a pathological fix on a woman, who's not only an admitted criminal but who screams if you come near her! So what about your dreams, Daddy dear?
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Mark Rutland
I don't give one infinitesimal damn what Lil thought or thinks.
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Marnie Edgar
Mark, I'd like to go freshen up a little.
Mark Rutland
Uh-uh. You're fresh enough.
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Marnie Edgar
My God! When I think of the things I've done to try to make you love me. The things I've done! What are you thinking now, Mama? About the things I've done? What do you think they are? Things that aren't *decent*, is that it? Well, you think I'm Mr Pemberton's girl. Is that why you don't want me to touch you? Is that how you think I get the money?
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Bernice Edgar
Wake up, Marnie. You're still dreaming. Get washed up. Supper's ready.
Marnie Edgar
I was having that old dream again. First the tapping and then...
Bernice Edgar
I said supper's ready.
Marnie Edgar
It's always when you come to the door. That's when the cold starts.
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Mark Rutland
You seem to be terrified of some colors.
Marnie Edgar
No. No, what I'm terrified of is thunder and lightning.
Mark Rutland
You know, I wouldn't have pegged you as a woman terrified of anything.
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Mark Rutland
Mary, this is my father.
Marnie Edgar
How do you do, Mr. Rutland?
Mr. Rutland
A girl, is it?
Mark Rutland
It's all right, Dad. She's not really a girl, she's a horse-fancier.
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Mark Rutland
The chronic use of an alias is not consistent with your story of - sudden temptation and unpremeditated impulse.
Marnie Edgar
What if you'd stolen almost $10,000, wouldn't you change your name?
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Marnie Edgar
How did you find me?
Mark Rutland
You're here to answer the questions, old girl.
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Marnie Edgar
Oh, Mark, if you love me, you'll let me go. Just let me go, Mark, please. Mark, you don't know me. Oh, listen to me, Mark. I am not like other people. I know what I am!
Mark Rutland
I doubt that you do, Marnie. In any event, we'll just have to deal with whatever it is that you are.
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Marnie Edgar
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I told you I've never been married.
Mark Rutland
Near misses?
Marnie Edgar
No! And no lovers, no steadies, no beaus, no gentlemen callers, nothing!
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Mark Rutland
We'll just have to marry you off as Mary Taylor. It's perfectly legal. You can sign yourself 'Minnie Q. Mouse' on a marriage license, you're still legally married.
Marnie Edgar
But you know what I am. I'm 'Minnie Q. Thief'! I'm--I'm a thief and a liar!
Mark Rutland
It seems to be my misfortune to have fallen in love with a thief and a liar.
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Mark Rutland
We'll talk this out tomorrow.
Marnie Edgar
There's nothing to talk out. I've told you how I feel. I'll feel the same way tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that!
Mark Rutland
All right, Marnie. We won't talk about it until you want to. But we're gonna be on this damn boat for many days and nights. Let's just drop the whole thing for the present and try to get through this bloody honeymoon cruise with as much grace as possible. Let's try at least to be--kind to each other.
Marnie Edgar
Oh. Kind!
Mark Rutland
All right, if that's too much, I'll be kind to you--and you'll be polite to me.
Marnie Edgar
You won't?
Mark Rutland
I won't. I give you my word. Now, let's try to get some rest, hm? How 'bout it? You in your little bed over there, and me, light years away in mine here.
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Mark Rutland
If I hadn't caught you, you'd have gone on stealing.
Marnie Edgar
No. No I wouldn't!
Mark Rutland
Yes, you would, again and again. Eventually, you would've got caught by somebody. You're such a tempting little thing. Some other sexual blackmailer would've got his hands on you. The chances of it being someone as permissive as me are pretty remote. Sooner or later, you'd have gone to jail. Or been cornered in an office by some angry old bull of a businessman who was out to take what he figured was coming to him. You'd probably have got him and jail. So I wouldn't say you were doing alright, Marnie.
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Mark Rutland
Lil, what is it you're up to? Out with it.
Lil Mainwaring
Me? I'm just offering you my services. Guerrilla fighter, perjurer, intelligence agent.
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Lil Mainwaring
Mark, listen. I'm a good fighter if you need me. I mean, if you are in some kind of trouble. I have absolutely no scruples.
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Mark Rutland
Atlantic City opens for races at the end of the month. We could drive out there next Saturday...
Marnie Edgar
All right. Are you fond of horses?
Mark Rutland
No, not at all.
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Mark Rutland
Now, don't crowd me, lady! I'm fighting a powerful impulse to beat the hell out of you!
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Marnie Edgar
Well, Mr. Ward, I have good training, but I've had very little actual experience. Kendall's was my first real job. After I finished school, I was married. My husband was a CPA and he helped me keep up with my training. I learned a great deal more from him: accounting, cost-price--even something about computers.
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Mark Rutland
Somebody's gotta take on the responsibility for you, Marnie. And it narrows down to a choice of me or the police, ol' girl.
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Mark Rutland
Contrary to the movies and the "Ladies' Home Journal", the battleground of marriage is not, I repeat, not, the--bedroom. The real field of battle is the bath. It is in the bath and for the bath, that the lines are drawn and no quarter given. It seems to me, we are getting off to a dangerously poor start, darling. You've been in the bathroom exactly 47 minutes.
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Mark Rutland
What happened to you?
Marnie Edgar
Happened? Nothing. Nothing happened to me. I just never wanted anybody to touch me!
Mark Rutland
You ever tried to talk about it, to a doctor or somebody who could help you?
Marnie Edgar
No, why should I? I didn't want to get married. It's--degrading. It's animal!
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Mark Rutland
This is the drill, dear. Wife follows husband to front door. Gives and or gets kiss. Stands pensively as he drives away. Oh, a wistful little wave is optional.
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Mark Rutland
You've been an absolute darling about my sitting up reading so late. I'm boning up on marine life.
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Mark Rutland
Look, Marnie, for the present all we've got is the facade and we've got to live it.
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Mark Rutland
She's having you on, Lil. It's some sort of gag. You've been ratty. She's set out to teach you some manners. You're being had, Lil.
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Bernice Edgar
Get out of my house. You get out! I don't need any filthy man comin' in my house no more!
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Marnie Edgar
Are you still in the mood for killing?
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Bernice Edgar
You go on back to sleep, sugarpop.
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Mark Rutland
I wouldn't be a bit surprised to hear that the rest of the haul is with your late husband, Mr. Taylor. Somewhere around these parts I expect to find him happily reincarnated and the pockets of his good blue burial suit bulging with Rutland money.
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Sailor
Your old captain's gonna be here all through the night.
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Marnie Edgar
Mark, are you--are you going to the office?
Mark Rutland
On the first day back after our honeymoon? How indelicate. No, I'm going down the road on a little errand.
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Mark Rutland
If I give you some books, will you read them?
Marnie Edgar
Your new homework? "Frigidity In Women"? "The Psychopathic Delinquent and Criminal"?
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Marnie Edgar
Well, come on! I thought you wanted to play doctor, so let's play!
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Sidney Strutt
I knew she was too good to be true. Always so eager to work overtime, never made a mistake. Always pulling her skirt down over her knees as though they were a--national treasure. She seemed so nice. So efficient. So...
Mark Rutland
Resourceful?
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Marnie Edgar
Ah, there's my darling!
Mr. Garrett - Manager of Farm
That big spoiled baby of yours knew something was up. Tried to bite me twice already this morning.
Marnie Edgar
Oh, Forio, if you want to bite somebody, bite me.
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Sidney Strutt
Mr. Rutland. I didn't know you were in town. Just had a robbery. Almost $10,000.
Mark Rutland
So I gathered. By a pretty girl with no references.
Sidney Strutt
You remember her. I pointed her out to you last time you were here. You said something about how I was improving the looks of the place.
Mark Rutland
Oh, that one! The brunette with the legs.
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Bernice Edgar
I see that you've lighted up your hair, Marnie.
Marnie Edgar
A little. Why? Don't you like it?
Bernice Edgar
No. Too blonde hair always looks like a woman's tryin' to attract the man. Men and a good name don't go together.
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Sam Ward
Now, why are we taking on someone without the proper references? You' re always such a stickler.
Mark Rutland
Let's just say I'm an interested spectator in the - passing parade.
Sam Ward
I don't get it.
Mark Rutland
You're not supposed to get it.
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Lil Mainwaring
Is Mark in there? I'm looking for a free lunch and somebody to cash a check for me. I thought I'd stick Mark for the lunch and you for the cash.
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Marnie Edgar
Where are we going this time?
Mark Rutland
I thought it was time I brought you home to meet my old man.
Marnie Edgar
Well, you should've told me.
Mark Rutland
Oh, you're all right. Dad goes by scent. If you smell anything like a horse, you're in.
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Mark Rutland
You're a cold-practised, method-actress of a liar.
Marnie Edgar
I can't help it.
Mark Rutland
It would appear not.
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Mark Rutland
Is Edgar your real name? And you're blonde. You'll save a good deal of time and make for better feeling all around if you just tell me the truth. Is Edgar your real name?
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Marnie Edgar
Oh, God, Mark, if you let me go, I swear I'll...
Mark Rutland
I *can't* let you go, Marnie. Somebody's got to take care of you and help you. I can't turn you loose. If I let you go, I'm criminally and morally responsible.
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Mark Rutland
Our dates are all wrong. Previously you were employed by the firm of Strutt and Company. I saw you there once. Mr. Strutt is the tax consultant for Rutland and Company. He pointed you out to me. You were a brunette then.
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Mark Rutland
We've established that you're a thief and a liar. Now, what is the degree? Are you a compulsive thief? A pathological liar?
Marnie Edgar
Oh, what difference does it make?
Mark Rutland
Some! It makes some difference--to me.
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Mark Rutland
Now you're working with this naughty cousin Jessie.
Marnie Edgar
Nobody's working with me!
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Lil Mainwaring
I always thought that a girl's best friend was her mother. Poor old Mark. Is her mother that ghastly? I mean, when the in-laws are so grim, you don't dare have them to the wedding. The usual excuse is poor health or the strain of the trip, you know? But to claim they're dead, now, come on!
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Marnie Edgar
Okay, I'm a big movie fan. I know the games. Come on. Let's play. Shall I start with dreams or should we free-associate? Oh, Doctor, I'll bet you're just dying to free-associate. Alright now, you give me a word and I'll give you an association. You know, like: needles, pins; when a man marries, trouble begins.
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Lil Mainwaring
Don't patronise me, Mark! That Mary-Marnie, brown-haired blonde you married so fast and sneaky and tried to hustle off to the South Pacific, for Pete's sake! I didn't have to overhear stuff about your not intending to go to jail too, to know that you're in some sort of fix.
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Marnie Edgar
You stare and blare and say you care, but you're unfair, you want a pair.
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Lil Mainwaring
Hello, Mr. Sam. How's the curmudgeon business?
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Lil Mainwaring
Who's the dish?
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Mark Rutland
Strutt may be throbbing away out there in the night with vengeful fantasies, but the fact is he's a businessman! That means he's in the business of doing business.
Marnie Edgar
So?
Mark Rutland
So we try to do business.
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Lil Mainwaring
I can't!
Mark Rutland
"When duty whispers low, thou must. Then youth replies, I can."
Lil Mainwaring
Ratfink! And you misquoted!
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Mark Rutland
Strong with a dash of rum for me.
Mr. Rutland
Spinster's tea. Mucking up tea with strong drink. Something sneaky about it, eh?
Lil Mainwaring
What's your opinion, Miss Taylor? Do you think old Mark here is a sneaky one?
Marnie Edgar
Possibly.
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Mark Rutland
Now, suppose you just begin at the beginning.
Marnie Edgar
It's just like I told you. I was born in Richmond. We were poor. We were grindingly poor.
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Mark Rutland
I phoned Marston and asked him if there was anyone around there that had horses for hire. He gave me the names of three. Yesterday, I drove up to The Plains, checked out the stables. No luck. But at the last place, the man said why didn't I try Garrod's over by Middleburg?
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