'Robert is going to drag Jean off to London and she doesn't want to go. He's a bully and I don't think he cares, so long as he gets his own way.' 'Nonsense, he's just ambitious.'
You're a happily married man and I'm your bit on the side. So we sign the Rule Book. I don't tell you and you don't ask. I promise not to rock the marital boat and we go on as long as it lasts and no one gets hurt.'
' Don't you think it hurts - pretending to yourself that everything's all right when you know it's not. That's a form of torture. Can't you imagine what that feels like? It might be a relief to have it out in the open.'
' Do you ever stop to think how much misery women like you cause? Men are so weak. We were happy till you came along. You could have anyone and you pick on my husband.'
' I'm afraid Diana is too unstable to be a mother, Mr Mackenzie. She's neurotic and irresponsible as you will find out for yourself. Not a thing one likes to say about one's own daughter, but one must face facts.'
' I went into the whole thing with very high hopes. I really did. Then I realised what I'd done. I should never have let Mack talk me into it. I've ruined my life and nobody can help me. I've just got to salvage the bits as best I can.'
' It's about jealousy. Yours and mine. It's poisoning everything. Don't you see it doesn't work this way. I've had to give up too much.'
' You know what I advise you to do? Find yourself a new girl. Someone very young, very unspoilt. Make a fresh beginning. You will feel reborn.'
I worry about it - not having the right feelings. I do love him, but I feel safe with him. It's not dangerous, it's not romantic. Just terribly comfortable and reassuring. It scares me because I'm not sure that's how I ought to feel. When you've never been in love before, it's awfully hard to tell.'
' You're no good to any woman, Robert. Oh, if you were an honest-to-God bastard, at least we could see you coming, but no woman, as far as I know, would like the idea of her daughter marrying her ex-lover, no matter how brief and boring the affair might have been. Does that make my position clear? '
' Be an awful shame if someone told him about us. I imagine he'd be quite upset. Nobody'd do a thing like that, would they? Kick a man when he's down. Still, I don't like being rejected. Now that's not unreasonable, is it? '
'All my life I've had to watch him doing exactly as he pleased. And I might have gone on watching and doing nothing if he hadn't picked on you. It's not easy for me to love people, but I love you very much. The day he took you away from me, I promised I'd get even.'