Coming Through (1988 TV Movie)

Helen Mirren: Frieda von Richtofen Weekley

Quotes 

• Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : It was when I saw you making the boats with the children, and playing in the stream, that I realised.

  D.H. Lawrence : What did you realise?

  Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : That I loved you.

  D.H. Lawrence : I know.

  [pause] 

  D.H. Lawrence : Prove it, Frieda.

  Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : How?

  D.H. Lawrence : Make's a cup o' tea.

• Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : Lawrence, would you like to stay with me tonight?

  D.H. Lawrence : Here?

  Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : Yes.

  D.H. Lawrence : I'd like that very much.

  Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : Good.

  D.H. Lawrence : But I won't.

  Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : O why not?

  D.H. Lawrence : Because I know the difference between appetite and desire.

  Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : You must explain.

  D.H. Lawrence : It's the difference between wanting to go to bed with a woman, and wanting to spend the rest of your life with her.

  Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : You mean, you want to spend the rest of your life with me?

  D.H. Lawrence : You say you love me. I say you're the most wonderful woman in the world. It's obvious.

  Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : Then it's obvious we've got to go to bed together!

  D.H. Lawrence : Nooo...

  Frieda von Richtofen Weekley : You're a puritan!

  D.H. Lawrence : Is there something wrong with that?