Fern Simon Quotes in The Rains Came (1939)

Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: I hope I'm not keeping you from your guests.

Fern Simon: Oh, they're not *my* guests. That's mother's idea of "high society." They're all excited because YOU'RE here.

Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: Really? Should I be flattered?

Fern Simon: They say dreadful things about you...

Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: [playfully whispers] What sort of things?

Fern Simon: That you're a drunkard, and a bounder, and a remittance man... They'll hang around you just the same, because your father was an earl.

Fern Simon: [Lady Esketh is giving away her jewels to Fern] But I can't take them.

Lady Edwina Esketh: Don't be an idiot. If you and Tom have children, your son might be the Earl of Nolan. He'd have a wife, and she could wear them to boring dinner parties, and tell how they'd been left to her by a shameless wench called Lady Esketh, who died in Ranchipur during the Great Disaster of 1938. We're such snobs at home. We like stories like that.