Jo Kendall: Adelaide Palliser

Quotes 

• Gerard Maule : [after telling Maule that she has rejected Fawn's marriage proposal]  He's desperate for a wife. Other men ain't!

  Adelaide Palliser : Gerald Maule, you're so smug I could hit you.

  Gerard Maule : I wouldn't try it, Missy. You might get as good as you get.

  Adelaide Palliser : You ain't a gentleman, that's what!

  Gerard Maule : You just discovered that?

  Adelaide Palliser : You've no need to look so pleased with yourself.

  Gerard Maule : Oh, but I'm not. On the contrary Miss Palliser, I am so conscious of my defects I can never presume to offer myself as a husband, least of all to a decent girl like you.

  Adelaide Palliser : But that's just it. When I'm with you, I don't care a bit for being decent. I feel positively indecent, and I like it! Now do you understand?

  Gerard Maule : [laughs]  Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear. Whatever shall we do with this? Whatever shall we do with you?