Conflict (1945)
Rose Hobart: Kathryn Mason
Quotes
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Richard Mason : Mutton? What's he getting mutton for? We're going out to dinner.
Kathryn Mason : We're having mutton tomorrow.
Richard Mason : I don't like mutton.
Kathryn Mason : I don't know why you say such a thing. I've seen you eat it a thousand times.
Richard Mason : A thousand times I told you I don't like it.
Kathryn Mason : Nonsense, it's all your imagination. You can eat anything if you put your mind to it.
Richard Mason : I don't eat with my mind, I eat with my stomach.
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Kathryn Mason : Really, Dick, you might put your things away, just look at that bed. If I've told you once, I've told you...
Richard Mason : Thousand times.
Kathryn Mason : And you insist on doing it.
Richard Mason : Listen Kathryn, I don't insist on anything. I don't know what's come over you lately. You find fault in everything I do and everything I say. What's the matter with you?
Kathryn Mason : Don't stand there and play the innocent with me. You know perfectly well what the matter is.
Richard Mason : What're you talking about?
Kathryn Mason : Your ridiculous infatuation with Evelyn. Oh you thought I didn't know, didn't you? You must think I'm blind. The way you look at her and hang on her every word is positively nauseating.
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Dr. Mark Hamilton : Never having been married myself, I've always had a warm spot in my heart for those who have achieved it.
Evelyn Turner : Achieved it?
Dr. Mark Hamilton : Certainly, as a psychologist I can assure you a happy marriage is indeed a rare achievement.
Kathryn Mason : Isn't that rather cynical?
Dr. Mark Hamilton : Well, perhaps it is, but, you see, marriage is a very tricky business. People have impulses, compulsions, drives that to say towards escape, escape from loneliness. They seek their escape in the companionship of someone else and lo just when they think they've achieved it, they find they put on their own handcuffs.
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Kathryn Mason : [to Richard] It's funny how virtuous a man can be when he's helpless.
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Kathryn Mason : You're in love with her aren't you? I thought so. Well what're you going to do about it?
Richard Mason : How can I do anything about it? I haven't said anything to her and I don't intend to. When I married you, your sister was jusjt a kid. Now she's grown up and I happen to find myself in love with her. Just one of those things that can't be helped.
Kathryn Mason : I suppose you'd like me to step out of the picture, well I'll never do that.
Richard Mason : I know that.
Kathryn Mason : As though you should try to leave me because she'd never marry you anyway, she's too loyal.
Richard Mason : I know that too.
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Kathryn Mason : I wouldn't tell Evelyn if I were you, I'm afraid she'd laugh at you too.
Richard Mason : I wish you hadn't said that.
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Kathryn Mason : I'm not going to the party.
Richard Mason : Oh yes you are. It's our fifth anniversary, you wouldn't miss it for anything. You'll go and I'll go like thousands of others go and laugh at the rest of them.
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Kathryn Mason : Richard! I was so afraid, I thought...
[Richard approaches her]
Kathryn Mason : Why, you're walking, Richard, you're walking without help. How did you get here? Why are you here?... No, Richard, don't!
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Richard Mason : [his wife is nicely dressed, as she's getting ready to leave for the mountain resort] You do look nice at that.
Kathryn Mason : That's the first compliment you've paid me in a long time.
Richard Mason : Well, I'm not such a bad guy when you get to know me.
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Dr. Mark Hamilton : At the university, I spend little time in teaching classes. A great deal in giving advice to individuals - distracted husbands, unhappy wives. Sometimes, I almost lose my belief in the existence of a happy marriage. Then I think of yours.
Kathryn Mason : We've been very fortunate.
Dr. Mark Hamilton : More than anyone expected five years ago, my dear. Oh ho, I guess it's quite safe now to tell you that I wouldn't have bet an old umbrella on your marriage lasting as much as a year. It's really a great tribute to you to have proved me so utterly wrong.
