That's a very tiresome question, darling. It fully deserves a wrong answer
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Charles Condomine:
I haven't forgotten Elvira. I remember her very distinctly, in deed. I remember how fascinating she was and how maddening. I remember how her gay charm when she'd achieved her own way over something and her extreme acidity when she didn't. I remember her physical attractiveness, which was tremendous, and her spiritual integrity which was nil. Ruth Condomine:
Was she more physically attractive than I am? Charles Condomine:
That's a very tiresome question, darling. It fully deserves a wrong answer
I haven't forgotten Elvira. I remember her very distinctly, in deed. I remember how fascinating she was and how maddening. I remember how her gay charm when she'd achieved her own way over something and her extreme acidity when she didn't. I remember her physical attractiveness, which was tremendous, and her spiritual integrity which was nil. Ruth Condomine:
Was she more physically attractive than I am? Charles Condomine:
That's a very tiresome question, darling. It fully deserves a wrong answer
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I haven't forgotten Elvira.
I remember her very distinctly indeed.
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I remember how fascinating she was
and how maddening.
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I remember her gay charm when she'd achieved
her own way and her acidity when she didn't.
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I remember her physical attractiveness,
which was tremendous,
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and her spiritual integrity, which was nil.
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Was she more physically attractive than I am?
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That's a very tiresome question
and fully deserves the wrong answer.
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- You really are very sweet.
- Thank you.
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- And a little naive, too.
- Why?
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Because you imagine that I mind about Elvira
being more physically attractive than I am.
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- I love you, my love.
- I know you do.
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But not the wildest stretch of the imagination
could describe it as the first careless rapture.
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- Would you like it to be?
- Good heavens, no.
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Wasn't that a shade too vehement?
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We're neither of us adolescent, Charles, or have
led prim lives. We've both been married before.
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A careless rapture would be incongruous
and embarrassing.
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I hope I haven't been a disappointment.
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Don't be so idiotic.
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Your first husband was older than you.
I wouldn't like you to miss out all along the line.
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There are moments, Charles,
when you go too far.
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Sorry, darling.
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If I died, I wonder how long it would be
before you married again.
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You won't die. You're not the dying sort.
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- Neither was Elvira.
- She was, now I come to think of it.
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She had a certain ethereal quality.
Nobody could call you even remotely ethereal.
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- Nonsense. She was of the earth, earthy.
- Yes, well, she is now, anyhow.
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That's the kind of observation
that shocks people.
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Discouraging to think how many are shocked
by honesty and how few by deceit.
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Movie Summary
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
Actors
Charles Condomine
Ruth Condomine
