Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Robert Taylor: Roy Cronin

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• Roy Cronin : The ballet was beautiful.

  Myra Lester : Madame didn't think so.

  Roy Cronin : Well, experts never know - it takes outsiders to know, and I tell you, it was beautiful.

  Myra Lester : That certainly proves you're an outsider.

• Myra Lester : Hello.

  Roy Cronin : Hello

  [they kiss] 

  Roy Cronin : You know, I... I thought about you all last night. Couldn't sleep a wink.

  Myra Lester : You managed to remember me at last, then.

  Roy Cronin : [laughing]  Yes, barely managed. Myra, what do you think we're going to do tonight?

• Roy Cronin : Well, darling.

  Myra Lester : Oh, Roy.

  Roy Cronin : Shall we face it?

  Myra Lester : It's been so quick. Are you quite, quite sure?

  Roy Cronin : Myra, I was never so sure of anything in my life. In the moment you left me after the air raid, I knew I must find you again. I've found you and I'll never let you go. Does that answer you?

  [Myra nods] 

• Roy Cronin : Good night, darling.

  Myra Lester : Goodbye, darling.

  Roy Cronin : Why goodbye when it's only till morning?

  Myra Lester : Because, every parting from you is - is like a little eternity.

• Roy Cronin : Myra, what do you think we're going to do tonight?

  Myra Lester : Well, I, I...

  Roy Cronin : Oh, you won't have time for that.

  Myra Lester : For what?

  Roy Cronin : For hesitating! No more hesitating for you!

  Myra Lester : No?

  Roy Cronin : No!

  Myra Lester : Well, what am I going to do instead?

  Roy Cronin : You're going to get married.

• Myra Lester : Do you think you'll remember me now?

  Roy Cronin : I think so. I think so, for the rest of my life.

• Roy Cronin : I knew I wouldn't sleep so I've been walking in the garden, confiding my good luck to the stars.

  Myra Lester : Were they pleased?

  Roy Cronin : No, they seemed indifferent. They went on glittering, the little exhibitionists!

• Myra Lester : What were you going to say?

  Roy Cronin : Wish I could have seen the ballet. I'm sure it would have been a pleasant memory in the trenches.

• Roy Cronin : Ah, here we are, good strong tea. This will buck you up!

• Roy Cronin : Goodbye, little sentimentalist.

• Roy Cronin : Must be good for the muscles. I should think a dancer's muscles would be like a strongman.

  Myra Lester : Oh, not quite. That's a bit dreadful. We try to combine slenderness with strength. Well, I've been dancing since I was twelve and I don't think the muscles are over developed.

  Roy Cronin : No-no. No, not in your case.

• Myra Lester : This hateful war.

  Roy Cronin : Yes, I suppose it is. And yet there's - I don't know - a certain amount of excitement about it too. Round the corner of every second, the fascination of the unknown. We're both facing it, this instance.

  Myra Lester : No, we face the unknown in peacetime too.

  Roy Cronin : You're rather matter-of-fact, aren't you?

  Myra Lester : Yes. You're rather romantic, aren't you?

• Roy Cronin : Either you're excited about life or you're not. You know, I've never been able to wait for the future.

• Roy Cronin : Wonderful evening, wasn't it?

  Myra Lester : Yes. Thank you, very much.

  Roy Cronin : When I come back, we'll go there again.

  Myra Lester : Yes.

  Roy Cronin : That'll be our place. That's were we'll always recapture this evening. Do you think we'll ever see each other again?

  Myra Lester : I think it's doubtful, don't you?

  Roy Cronin : Yes, I suppose it is.

• Roy Cronin : Now, listen, darling. None of your quibbling. None of your questioning. None of your doubts. This is positive, you see. This is affirmative, you see. This is final, you see. You're going to marry me, you see!

• Roy Cronin : Myra - why you little gadabout. What are you doing prowling around at this hour?