Lady St. Edmund Quotes in Candleshoe (1977)
Lady St. Edmund Quotes:
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[last lines]
Casey Brown: What if your real granddaughter comes back?
Lady St. Edmund: Perhaps she has.
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Lady St. Edmund: So, after you left, we examined the fireplace. There was a loose stone...
Casey Brown: You're kiddin'?
Lady St. Edmund: And there was something hidden in the canopy behind it.
[takes out a small, shiny box from behind her back]
Lady St. Edmund: Do you recognize this?
Casey Brown: No.
Lady St. Edmund: Look closer, dear. Are you sure you've never seen it? It's very important!
Casey Brown: No. No. Although...
[begins to whistle the first notes of a tune, then opens the box, which turns out to be a music box that completes the melody]
Casey Brown: Uh, I don't understand...
Lady St. Edmund: Oh, my dear. Oh, my dear!... Welcome to Candleshoe!
[embraces Casey, crying]
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Casey Brown: [Casey has told everyone at Candleshoe the real reason for her arrival and what she has discovered thus far. They are all at the graveyard looking at the headstone] ... And this was the last clue. He followed the Eclipse for riches and fame...
Priory: And if ye would prosper, do ye the same. What does it mean?
Lady St. Edmund: Why, it's very simple. The Eclipse was a ship. Captain Joshua's ship. There's a picture of it in the house, of Captain Joshua accepting the surrender of a Spanish vessel on the Spanish main. Dear Lord, well, that's the clue! Come on everyone! It's hanging in the hall!
Priory: Um, my Lady!
Lady St. Edmund: [remembers] It's not hanging in the hall...
Lady St. Edmund: [Lady St. Edmund has called an emergency meeting with Mr. Thresher] You sold it, Mr. Thresher, you sold my painting?
Mr. Thresher: Well, my lady, it was my painting. You sold to me, that is, well, Mr. Priory sold it to me, that is...
Priory: Mr. Thresher, we certaintly have no quams with the sale, but we must get a look at it. So if you would, please tell us who you sold it to,and where is it now?
Mr. Thresher: Ah, I sold it to an elderly woman only yesterday. She said, that Captain Joshua reminded her of her father...
Lady St. Edmund: Another pirate, no doubt.
Mr. Thresher: I packaged it up, myself. It's leaving on the 12:20 for London!
Priory: 12:20. Thank you Mr. Thresher. Come along, everyone. We must get to the station!
Casey Brown: But, it's 12:15 now!
Priory: That train never leaves on time, if we hurry we should just make it.
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Lady St. Edmund: I don't suppose your experience with family life has been a happy one.
Casey Brown: What family life? Tell ya, the only thing i remember about family life is nothing. Zero. One foster dump to another. I mean who really cares about a kid you take in just for the welfare money and the food stamps? I mean who really cares? It's a racket, just like anything else. The whole world's a racket. First thing i ever learned. you get up out of bed in the morning with your dukes up. You got 'em up, first punch is yours.
Lady St. Edmund: I see.
Casey Brown: Yeah, well, maybe you do and maybe you don't.
Lady St. Edmund: But you can't go through life alone.
Casey Brown: I ain't alone. I got me. Listen, if you don't hand it out you don't have to worry about not getting it back.
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Lady St. Edmund: Priory!
Lady St. Edmund: My Lady?
Casey Brown: Gagh!
[puts down the spoon]
Harry Bundage: Eat it!
Casey Brown: I can't! I've had enough! Uh...
[looks for a place to dump the rice pudding out]
Lady St. Edmund: Strawberries, shortbread, rice pudding? I must say, that was very unscrupulous of you, Priory.
Priory: Quite right, My Lady. Most unscrupulous.
Lady St. Edmund: We'll just let things take their course, shall we, Priory?
Priory: [bows] Very good.
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Lady St. Edmund: [Lady St. Edmund and Casey have gone into the garden to look for the gardener, Mr. Gidding] Gidding? Gidding?
[see the gardener bent over a rose bush, trimming it]
Lady St. Edmund: Mr. Gidding! I would have a word with you. I thought I made it quite clear that there were to be fresh roses on the landing every morning!
Priory: [disguised as Mr. Gidding, the gardener] Your orders? I don't give a hoot en hoot about your orders, the roses come first!
Lady St. Edmund: Oh, do they indeed? You know, you used to be a good, pleasant gardener. But in recent years, you have become fairly tiresome and crotchety!
Priory: Oh, that's the way, is it? Crotchety, am I? If I known we going to thoroughly examine my character, I would have washed my hands and put on my Sunday best!
Lady St. Edmund: Gidding! We are discussing the roses!
Priory: Now, that's enough of that! You two go off and toodle over the property and I'll take care of what I do best!
Lady St. Edmund: Mr. Gidding!
Priory: Here here! Now see here, I'll trim my roses as I see fit!
Lady St. Edmund: Your roses? Very well. If that is your attitude, you are dismissed!
[nods for effect, and her and Casey walk away]
Lady St. Edmund: Priory? Priory!
Priory: [rushes back into the house through the back entrance. The kids are there waiting] Quick, help!
[the children help Priory to get out of his disguise and back into his butler uniform]
Priory: Get the boots, get the boots!
Peter: [Priory has his butler uniform back on and is about to answer Lady St. Edmund] Psst! Psst!
[Priory looks back, Peter points to his eyebrows and mouths the word Eyebrows, meaning Priory still has the fake ones on]
Peter: .
Priory: [Priory quickly takes them off and stuffs them in his pocket, then puts the stale bread bag on the tray he is carrying] Yes, My Lady?
Lady St. Edmund: [breathing heavily] Oh Priory! I have dismissed Gidding. I wish him packed and out of here by this evening!
Priory: I see. Do you think that decision might have been a little rash, My Lady?
Lady St. Edmund: Certaintly not! He was impertanant!
Priory: Oh, that's just his way, My Lady. And may I say, he would be very hard, for me to replace.
Lady St. Edmund: He would?
Priory: Very hard. And I would ensure that he had fresh roses on the landing, every morning.
Lady St. Edmund: You would? Well, I suppose I, might give him one more chance. But you may tell him, that this is positively his last!
Priory: Yes, My Lady. Oh, My Lady, the stale bread.
[hands Lady St. Edmund the bag]
Lady St. Edmund: Oh, thank you, Priory.
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Lady St. Edmund: Please play the gramophone record, Priory, and you and I will waltz.
Priory: Oh no, my lady, absolutely not.
Lady St. Edmund: I insist.
Priory: Oh no, my lady, it wouldn't be appropriate.
Lady St. Edmund: Would it be appropriate if I were to dance with Col. Dennis? I'm sure he dances better than he rides.
[pause]
Lady St. Edmund: You did him very well Priory.
Priory: You knew?
Lady St. Edmund: We were playing games with time, you and I. And I thank you for it.
Priory: My lady, I'm terribly embarrassed.
Lady St. Edmund: You needn't be. I'm very grateful. For your splendid talent, and even more for your compasssion. And now if you please, the gramophone record.
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Bobby: Grandmother, now that your real granddaughter is here, does it mean that we'll be sent away?
Lady St. Edmund: Good gracious! If I did that, whom would I find to slide up and down the great hall?
[She kisses the top of his head. He smiles, then takes a running slide down the Great Hall]
Lady St. Edmund: Splendid!
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Lady St. Edmund: I don't mind in the least that you lied to me when you first came to Candleshoe. But I would be very hurt if you lied to me now. Do you really want to go back to Los Angeles?
Casey Brown: [Casey begins to cry and is embarassed] I've never cried in my life.
Lady St. Edmund: Then I think it's time that you did. Come on, my dear. We're going home.
[they leave the train station together]
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