Rebecca

1940

Jack Favell: I'd like to have your advice on how to live comfortably without working hard.

Maxim de Winter: I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

Mrs de Winter: Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again.

Jack Favell: I say, marriage with Max is not exactly a bed of roses, is it?

The Second Mrs de Winter: I'm not the sort of woman men marry.

Mrs de Winter: I wish I were a woman of 36, dressed in black satin with a string of pearls!

Maxim de Winter: You thought I loved Rebecca? You thought that? I hated her!

Mrs Edythe Van Hopper: Most girls would give their eyes for the chance to see Monte! Maxim de Winter: Wouldn't that kind of defeat the purpose?

(after being asked what his costume was) Major Giles Lacy: Strong man, Old man.

(urging Mrs de Winter to jump out the window and end her misery) Mrs Danvers: Go ahead. Jump. He never loved you, so why go on living? Jump and it will all be over...

Mrs Danvers: (as the second Mrs de Winter runs into the room) I watched you go down just as I watched her a year ago. Even in the same dress you couldn't compare. The Second Mrs de Winter: You knew it! You knew that she wore it, and yet you deliberately suggested I wear it. Why do you hate me? What have I done to you that you should ever hate me so? Mrs Danvers: You tried to take her place. You let him marry you. I've seen his face - his eyes. They're the same as those first weeks after she died. I used to listen to him, walking up and down, up and down, all night long, night after night, thinking of her, suffering torture because he lost her! The Second Mrs de Winter: (turning away in shame and shock) I don't want to know, I don't want to know! Mrs Danvers: (moving towards her) You thought you could be Mrs de Winter, live in her house, walk in her steps, take the things that were hers! But she's too strong for you. You can't fight her - no one ever got the better of her. Never, never. She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman. It was the sea! The Second Mrs de Winter: (collapsing in tears on the bed) Oh, stop it! Stop it! Oh, stop it! Mrs Danvers: (opening the shutters) You're overwrought, madam. I've opened a window for you. A little air will do you good. (as the second Mrs de Winter gets up and walks toward the window) Why don't you go? Why don't you leave Manderley? He doesn't need you... he's got his memories. He doesn't love you, he wants to be alone again with her. You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you? (softly, almost hypnotically) Look down there. It's easy, isn't it? Why don't you? Why don't you? Go on. Go on. Don't be afraid...

Mrs Danvers: She knew everyone that mattered. Everyone loved her.

Mrs Danvers: Oh, you've moved her brush, haven't you? (moves it slightly) There, that's better. Just as she always laid it down. "Come on, Danny, hair drill," she would say. (picks up the brush and goes through the motions of combing the second Mrs De Winter's hair, without actually touching it) And I'd stand behind her like this and brush away for twenty minutes at a time. (lays down the brush and looks at the portrait of Maxim) Then she would say, "Good night, Danny," and step into her bed.

Mrs Danvers: (brings out a negligee from under the bedcovers) Did you ever see anything so delicate? (motions the second Mrs de Winter over) Look, you can see my hand through it!

Mrs Danvers: (just as the second Mrs de Winter reaches for the door) You wouldn't think she'd been gone so long, would you? Sometimes, when I walk along the corridor, I fancy I hear her just behind me. That quick light step, I couldn't mistake it anywhere. It's not only in this room, it's in all the rooms in the house. I can almost hear it now. (turns to the petrified second Mrs de Winter) Do you think the dead come back and watch the living? The Second Mrs de Winter: (sobbing) N-no, I don't believe it. Mrs Danvers: Sometimes, I wonder if she doesn't come back here to Manderley, to watch you and Mr de Winter together. You look tired. Why don't you stay here a while and rest, and listen to the sea? It's so soothing. Listen to it. (turning away towards the window as the second Mrs de Winter slips out the door) Listen. Listen to the sea.

The Second Mrs de Winter: No, it's not too late. You're not to say that. I love you more than anything in the world. Oh, please Maxim, kiss me please. Maxim de Winter: No, it's no use. It's too late.

Maxim de Winter: "I'll make a bargain with you," she said. "You'd look rather foolish trying to divorce me now after four days of marriage. So I'll play the part of a devoted wife, mistress of your precious Manderley. I'll make it the most famous showplace in England if you like. Then, people will visit us and envy us, and say we're the luckiest, happiest, couple in the country. What a grand show it will be! What a triumph!"

Maxim de Winter: I can't forget what it's done to you. I've been thinking of nothing else since it happened. It's gone forever, that funny young, lost look I loved won't ever come back. I killed that when I told you about Rebecca. It's gone. In a few hours, you've grown so much older.

Maxim de Winter: That's not the Northern lights. That's Manderley!

Maxim de Winter: (to his wife at breakfast) Have a look at "The Times"; there's a thrilling article on what's the matter with English cricket!

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