Madeleine Carroll Quotes

Pamela I feel such a fool, not having believed you.

Hannay Oh, that's all right. Well, we ought to get a move on. What room are those two men in?

Pamela No room, they went as soon as they telephoned.

Hannay They what?

Pamela Didn't I tell you?

Hannay You let them go after hearing what they said? You, you button-headed little idiot!

Pamela Don't talk to me like that!

Hannay Four or five precious hours wasted. Why didn't you wake me up at once? Even you might have realized that what they said was important.

Pamela What made you wake so soon? Dreams?

Hannay What do you mean, dreams?

Pamela I've always been told murderers have terrible dreams.

Hannay Oh, but only at first. Got over that a long time ago. When I first did a crime, I was quite squeamish about it. I was a most sensitive child.

Pamela You surprise me.

Hannay I used to wake up in the middle of the night screaming, thinking the police were after me. But one gets hardened.

Pamela How did you start?

Hannay Oh, quite a small way like most of us. Pilfering pennies from other childrens lockers at school. Then a little pocket-picking and a spot of car-pinching, and smash-and-grab and sordid, plain burglary. Killed my first man when I was nineteen. In years to come, you'll be able to take your grandchildren to Mme. Tussaud's and point me out.

Pamela Which section?

Hannay Oh, it's early to say. I'm still young. But I'll be there, all right, in one department or another. Yes, you'll point me out and say: Chicks, if I were to tell you how matey I once was with that gentleman...

Hannay There are twenty million women in this island and I've got to be chained to you. Now look here, miss. Once more, I'm telling you the truth...I'm telling it to you now for a third time. There's a dangerous conspiracy against this island. We're the only people who can stop it - what you've seen happen right under your very nose.

Pamela The gallant knight to the rescue.

Hannay All right. Then, I'm just a plain common murderer who stabbed an innocent, defenseless woman in the back not four days ago. How do you come out over that? I don't know how innocent you may be, but you're a woman and you're defenseless, and you're alone on a desolate moor in the dark manacled to a murderer who would stop at nothing to get you off his hands. And if that's the situation you prefer, have it, my lovely, and welcome.

Pamela I'm not afraid of...

Hannay For all you know, I may murder a woman a week. So listen to one bit of advice. From now on, do every single thing I can easily do, and do it quick.

Pamela You big bully!

Hannay I like your pluck!

Hannay Couldn't you realize I was speaking the truth in that railway carriage? You must have seen I was genuine. Well, whether you believe me or not, will you put a telephone call through to the High Commissioner in London and tell him that...an enormously important secret is being taken out of this country by a foreign agent? I can't do anything myself because of this fool of a detective. Has that penetrated?

Pamela Right to the funny bone. Now tell me another one.

Hannay Haven't you any sense at all? Put that call through, I beg you or refer them to me. Will you do this?

Pamela No. Good night.

Hannay Now, will you kindly place yourself on the operating table? All right, all right, nobody's gonna hurt you. This is Armistice Day. Let's get some rest while we can.

Pamela I'm not going to lie on this bed.

Hannay As long as you're chained to me, you'll lie wherever I lie. We're the Siamese twins.

Pamela Oh, don't gloat!

Hannay Gloat? Do you think I'm looking forward to waking up in the morning and seeing your face beside me, unwashed and shiny? What a sight you'll be.

Hannay Now what's the next item on the program?

Pamela Get these things off.

Hannay Right. How are we going to set about it? Anything in that bag of yours that would help? A pair of scissors or hairpin, or something?

Pamela A nail file. Well, do you think that'd help?

Hannay ...It'll take about ten years, but we can try it. Now let's make ourselves as comfortable as possible. What about that skirt of yours? It's still pretty damp, you know. I don't want to be tied to a pneumonia case on top of everything else. Take it off. I don't mind.

Pamela I'll leave it on, thank you...My shoes and stockings are soaked so I think I'll take them off.

Hannay That's the first sensible thing I've heard you say.