The Road to Singapore (1931)

Marian Marsh: Rene March

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• Rene March : But it isn't much fun, belonging to oneself.

  Hugh Dawltry : Don't you try to vamp me, young woman.

  Rene March : I could. Easily.

  Hugh Dawltry : Well, if this keeps on I shall either have to turn you over my knee or run from here.

  Rene March : In the first place, I'd scream. In the second, I'd run after you.

• Rene March : I'm old enough to know that when a man like you says "no," to a woman, he really means, "yes." And besides, I like your Scotch.

• Rene March : Do you always ride alone?

  Hugh Dawltry : Sometimes the horse goes with me.

• Rene March : Now, I know how you fascinate all the women. You make them think you don't want them when you really do all the time

  [as she paws him, he looks at each pawing] 

  Rene March : . Or, uh, are you afraid of me?

• Philippa Crosby March : How flushed your face is.

  Rene March : [standing in front of a mirror in lingerie]  It must be excitement.

  Philippa Crosby March : Excitement?

  Rene March : Who wouldn't be excited? Another dinner at the Gymkhana Club with the same old Nikko to take me. And the same fussy old people to dance with. I think I'll create a diversion and go like this.

  Philippa Crosby March : Rene!

  [spanks Rene's bottom] 

  Rene March : Ow! It is a bore and you know it.

  Philippa Crosby March : You are too young to be bored.

  Rene March : Married people aren't the only ones to suffer that way.

  Philippa Crosby March : And you're much too young to be cynical.

  [lights a cigarette] 

• Rene March : I suppose George is alright as husbands go. But if I were married, I'd want my husband with me always. You hardly ever see him unless you go to the hospital .. And sit in that smelly waiting room full of native patients. George is my brother but he is not my type for a husband.

  Philippa Crosby March : Rene March, what have you been reading?

  Rene March : You'd be surprised.

• Rene March : He pokes his fingers into everything.

  Philippa Crosby March : George is a doctor, my dear.

• Rene March : I've been dying to see your bungalow anyway.

  Hugh Dawltry : You wouldn't like it. Orgies. Terrible goings on.

• Rene March : I hope Dawltry gets gloriously drunk and makes love to every woman in the place. Including me.

• Rene March : I like your bungalow. But I couldn't find an orgy any place.

• Rene March : I wish you would forget George.

  Hugh Dawltry : I intend to.

  Rene March : So do I. And also stay out as late as I wish while he's gone.

  Hugh Dawltry : You'll find that a rather boring privilege with no place to go.

• Rene March : Wouldn't it be thrilling? I think there is something wonderful about a secret shared by two people.

  Hugh Dawltry : It certainly gives the rest of the community something to talk about.

• Rene March : Must you treat me like a child?

  Hugh Dawltry : I hope not. Because I don't want to have to spank you.