The Animal Kingdom (1932)

Myrna Loy: Cecelia

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• Tom Collier : [Holding Cecilia's hands and admiring her]  Oh, Cee darling, what a marvellous object you are.

  [They kiss] 

  Tom Collier : Oh, I feel good.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : So do I.

  Tom Collier : Do you?

  Tom Collier : [Ogling her from head to foot] 

  Tom Collier : I love you, Cee.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Stop it, Tom. You're embarrassing me.

  Tom Collier : Why?

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : I feel quite naked.

• Owen : There, there, now. Don't worry. Tom will be along any second.

  Rufus Collier : If what I think is true, I hope he never comes along.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : What?

  Rufus Collier : Well, I'll, I'll tell you what's in my mind. Heaven knows I don't want it there. That girl he's been living with for the last three years...

  Owen : Just a minute, sir.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : It's alright Owen.

  Rufus Collier : Good Jupiter, it's no secret, is it? Who is she, anyway? What is she?

  Owen : An extremely nice girl. Hard working. Talented. She, she draws for one of the fashion magazines and very successfully. She left three months ago for her magazine's Paris office for an indefinite stay.

• Tom Collier : Tell me, darling, did you really say you'd marry me?

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : I'm afraid I did.

  Tom Collier : Oh, heaven help us both. Just this one marriage please. You know I haven't been very good about marriage. I was exposed to a very bad case of it as a baby. We must make a grand go of it.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Oh, we shall. Never you fear.

  Tom Collier : Well, you-you just do everything I say and it'll be alright.

  Tom Collier : With pleasure, sir!

• Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Well, Cee, for a long time I've known, known intimately, a girl whose been very important to me.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Yes.

  Tom Collier : Daisy's done more for me than anyone in this world. She's the best friend I've got. I believe she always will be. I'd hate terribly to lose her. It's-it's been a queer sort of arrangement. Or, no arrangement at all, really. There's been no idea of marriage between us.

• Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : I see.

  Tom Collier : Cee, we've, well we've been everything possible to each other, of course. But,

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Yes, Tom.

  Tom Collier : At the same time, as free as air. I mean, there's never been any feeling of conventional responsibility towards each other, involved in it.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : I can understand that.

  Tom Collier : Can you, Cee? Because, I never could.

• Owen : Well, you know there's a thing called - legal ethics.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : There's a thing called - friendship.

• Tom Collier : Cee, your eyes are so bright.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Oh, eat you. You're seeing things.

  Tom Collier : Cee.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Yes, dear.

  Tom Collier : You know, a little love is no love.

• Tom Collier : I know, the Florentine! A private room at the Florentine.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : What's that?

  Tom Collier : Its a sort of hotel. Run by a woman called Flora Conover.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Sounds wicked.

  Tom Collier : It used to be the best place in London.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Place? What sort of place?

  Tom Collier : Twenty guineas.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Twenty guineas?

  Tom Collier : On the mantle piece.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : What are you talking about?

  Tom Collier : In advance, at that.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Rather expensive, wasn't it?

  Tom Collier : Well, one went to Flora's to celebrate and the food was good, the waiter discreet, the wine excellent, the lady most artful.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : I don't care to hear about it, thank you.

• Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : We shouldn't. You know we shouldn't.

  Tom Collier : But, eh, we seem to be.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : All at once, I feel terribly naughty, somehow.

• Owen : On ordinary terms, Tom doesn't seem to have got very far. He's wasted his life from the cradle.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Aaw, it must have been pathetic to see him wasting at three!

  Rufus Collier : I assure you his genius was shown even then. I send him to Harvard, he lasts two years there. I send him to Oxford, he commutes from Paris. I put him into a bank, he... The whole world is at the feet of that boy, the whole world. And all he's ever done is to run from it.

• Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Oh, sweet innocent... I should think you'd know by now, that she was just a promiscuous little - oh well.

  Owen : You're a strange girl, Cee. You're a pretty cruel one too.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Not at all. In fact, I don't see why Tom and she shouldn't be just as good friends as, well, as you and I are.

  Owen : Their history is a little different.

  Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier : Why? Don't you like our history?

  Owen : What there is of it. A trifle uneventful, don't you think? Or, should we simply call it, lacking in excitement.