The Skin Game (1931)

Jill Esmond: Jill Hillcrist

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• [first lines] 

  Jill : Hello. I say, I see they're cutting down the trees in Longmeadow.

• Jill : I say, do you see Chloe sitting down? She looks awfully queer. I think its something to do with that man.

• Jill : I say, old Hornblower didn't seem very upset.

• Mr. Hornblower - The Hornblowers : As for you, Missy, you leave my boy alone.

  Jill : Here, here, may I spit in his eye or something?

• Rolf Hornblower : He can't help thinking he's a public benefactor.

  Jill : And we can't help thinking he's a pig!

• Rolf Hornblower : Aren't we ever going to be friends again?

  Jill : I don't expect so.

  Rolf Hornblower : That's very - horrible.

  Jill : There's lots of horrible things in this world.

  Rolf Hornblower : It's up to us to make them pure, Jill.

  Jill : Don't be moral.

  Rolf Hornblower : That's the last thing I want to be. I only want to be friendly.

  Jill : Better be real first.

• Jill : Dawker's simply oozing triumph. I don't trust him, Do-Do. He's too - not pugilistic, but the other, the other one with a pug. Pugnacious!

  Mr. Hillcrist : He is, rather.

  Jill : I'm sure he would care a tuppence if... Chloe committed suicide.

  Mr. Hillcrist : Nonsense, nonsense.