Jewel Robbery (1932)

Kay Francis: Baroness Teri

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• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh! I want to play with these the way a child plays with sand. Try them all on. Pour them all over me. Bury myself in them. Oh, they're too heavenly! This necklace, where did you get it?

  Robber : At a charity ball.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : What courage!

  Robber : No, merely nimble fingers. The lady stood beside me. The Prince of Wales was announced. I could have removed her dress.

• Robber : The last place anybody would think of looking for me is in your bedroom.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, so you expect to stay here until morning?

  Robber : I'm forced to. Tomorrow the chase starts all over again. I must have a peaceful night.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : A peaceful night in *my bedroom?*

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : There now, you can go!

  Marianne Horne : Be displeased with me! I can't help it. I'm a respectable woman and I'm afraid.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Don't you think I'm afraid? I shan't close my eyes all night.

  Marianne Horne : Well, this is *one* night I shall be very glad to be with my husband!

• Marianne Horne : What a shame to meet a man like that in a shop.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Why a shame?

  Marianne Horne : He's the sort of robber one should meet in a Pullman!

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : What do you mean?

  Marianne Horne : Didn't you see in the paper?

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : No!

  Marianne Horne : Last week an American woman was robbed in the Simplon Express. Stripped right down to her teddies!

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : *No*!

  Marianne Horne : What would you do if you found yourself in your teddies?

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : What would *you* do??

  Marianne Horne : Let the train go on!

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : [laughing]  Lost soul!

  Marianne Horne : When I'm travelling at the rate of 80 miles per hour, I'm not responsible for my actions.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : This is awful!

  Robber : Why? I'm having a very good time. Won't you sit down?

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : You behave exactly as though you were paying a call!

  Robber : I am. After a very brief and informal introduction, I'm now making a formal call.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Through the window...

  Robber : But only to preserve your reputation. I came very discreetly by way of a drain pipe.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : That's not legal!

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I'm curious to know how you were led astray.

  Robber : Well, I began life as a little boy--

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I'm glad to hear that you kept to the same sex.

  Robber : Yes. It's a family tradition.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : So gay! So well poised! As I watched him go about his work so simply, I realized what a high civilization we have in Europe today.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Your conscience?

  Robber : Beautifully clear.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Your past?

  Robber : Fortunate.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Your future?

  Robber : It doesn't exist. I live only for the present. And the present - is you.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : [being seduced by Robber]  Show me your jewels.

  Robber : Of course.

• Marianne Horne : Not emeralds, sapphires.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Sapphires! My first love!

  Marianne Horne : And your latest?

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Diamonds. White. Pure. Cold.

  Marianne Horne : Virginal! And men?

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I haven't found one to supplant my jewels.

• Marianne Horne : Twenty-eight carats! Really, Teri, you must tell me your secret. Four carats is the best I've been able to do and that had a flaw in it.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : What wouldn't a woman do for such a treasure.

  Marianne Horne : Oh, anything! I'd deceive my husband, with pleasure.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, a woman would do much more than that! She would tolerate her husband!

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, no, no, please. Please don't hurt my lips. Everyone says my lips...

  Robber : Are heavenly.

• Robber : You're so lovely. It's hard to be brutal with you.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : You do strike a fresh note. Up to now, men have always been brutal because I am lovely.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : What do you expect me to do in there alone?

• Robber : Come with me. I'll drop you somewhere in the suburbs, untouched.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Untouched? In the suburbs? Oh, no! No, that doesn't intrigue me at all!

• Marianne Horne : Oh, they are silly to expect a woman to tell the truth about what happened - when she was alone with a man!

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Imagine!

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : A man like you doesn't climb a drainpipe just to make love to a woman.

• Robber : Come with me!

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Where?

  Robber : Over the roofs and away!

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I don't dare.

  Robber : Romance. Adventure. Gaiety. Excitement. A chance to live!

• Robber : [with a nameless introduction, proposing a toast]  Merely man.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Merely woman.

  Robber : And to whatever joins them.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I'm hungry

  Robber : That's because you were frightened. There's nothing like a little fear to whet one's appetite.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Now, would you be so kind as to introduce me to you?

  Robber : Which one of me?

• Robber : [being threatened by Teri's gun]  Do you want to make a pool of blood?

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : If you insist.

• Marianne Horne : Imagine having a husband like yours, who would gladly spend a fortune, just to make you happy. You are a lucky girl, Teri. Don't you think so?

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I did think so. For a month now, it was thrilling and exciting; but, then it became dull.

  Marianne Horne : What?

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Unbearably dull!

  Marianne Horne : Good gracious! Married to eight million!

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Eight fifty-five with chronic gout.

• Marianne Horne : For your lovers, you may have your choice! Cabinet ministers, Diplomats, Men of Affairs!

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : When a man achieves the distinction of a red sash across his shirt front, his chest, my dear, is the most important part of his anatomy.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : [admiring a diamond ring]  What perfection! Such brilliancy! Such depth! There's something of the infinite in it.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I'm not a fine woman. In my own eyes, I'm shallow and weak. Because I go on living a shallow and weak life. Where with a little courage, I could break away from it. I have all the qualities that make quite a decent person and what have I done with them? I fly about all day pursuing food, jewels, excitement. I don't love. I don't even suffer. That is, except boredom. In the morning a cocktail. In the afternoon a man.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : You've given me a very exciting ten minutes. It will make me the center of interest of teas and dinners for weeks to come.

  Robber : Think how much more interesting your story would be if I brutally gagged you.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : It's a much better story if I could say that you locked the gentlemen in the safe and dashed out. Well, you don't actually have to dash.

  Robber : Then everyone will ask you why you didn't call out. That will make you an accomplice after the fact.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Ooo! That's even more thrilling!

• Baron Franz : A man comes out of nowhere, flourishing a revolver! To Teri, such a man is not an enemy to society, but, a romantic figure! I must work hard to acquire wealth, devise frugally, think clearly, out with men. But, that doesn't make me interesting, does it, my darling.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : No, dear.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Marianne, you're not going to desert me in this crisis?

  Marianne Horne : I don't mind a little flirtation; but, this is going too far.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, please, please. Just stay the night.

  Marianne Horne : I should say not! They'll be a scandal and I'm going to protect myself.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : How ashamed you'll be in the morning for having deserted me!

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : How do you know that?

  Robber : I overheard your conversation - in the bedroom.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : While I was undressing?

  Robber : You were everything I anticipated.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Cognac?

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Well, I'm glad. Yes. I'm very glad that you're here.

  Robber : You excite me!

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Do they examine you here in this room?

  Robber : Examine and cross-examine. You get to like it after awhile.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Like it?

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : You're not drinking?

  Robber : You are my wine tonight.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, now, please. Can't you do better than that?

  Robber : That was a bit shopworn. I confess.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : You can't invite me to do anything. Whatever you do must be done by force.

  Robber : Well, then.

  [he picks her up and throws her on the bed] 

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh! What are you doing?

  Robber : Using force.

• Robber : Will you come away with me? I leave Vienna tonight. We fly together.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Flight? Oh, no. Abduction, perhaps.

  Robber : Anything you like!

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Where do we go?

  Robber : Eternity!

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, that sounds far, I'm afraid.

  Robber : Stay close to me and you won't be afraid.

• Robber : Come with me to Nice. We'll be miles from Vienna. The season is on. The casinos are gay! We'll bath ourselves in music. Drown ourselves in champagne. I'll make love to you as I've dreamed of making love.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : That sounds divine. Perhaps there by the sea, away from everything.

  Robber : Don't say perhaps. Dance with me in Nice on Thursday.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, wait. I feel now that I don't dare go with you. But, how will I feel tomorrow when I realize that I've let you go. I know how I'll feel. I'll dance with you Thursday!

  Robber : The Hotel Negresco.

  Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : For tea!

  Robber : Darling.

• Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : [Last lines]  My nerves are shattered - simply shattered! I must get away for a long rest, at once. I think I'll go to Nice. Yes, Nice. Nice... On the first possible train.