If Winter Comes (1947)

Walter Pidgeon: Mark Sabre

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• Mark Sabre : Have you seen the news about Poland?

  Mabel Sabre : Darling, this is serious bridge.

• Nona Tyber : I had to come. Pleased?

  Mark Sabre : How do I look?

  Nona Tyber : Pleased. Almost as pleased as I am.

• Mr. Twyning : I didn't tell you before. I wanted it to come as a pleasant surprise.

  Mark Sabre : Did you? Yeah. Well, it's a surprise, all right.

• Natalie Bagshaw : How are you, Mark?

  Mark Sabre : Uh, marmalade, please.

  Natalie Bagshaw : Enjoying life?

  Mabel Sabre : Naturally. He's got me.

  Natalie Bagshaw : You mean you've got him. The poor man's so married he can scarcely move.

  Mabel Sabre : He doesn't want to move.

• Mark Sabre : You haven't told me what you've been doing.

  Nona Tyber : Oh, that. Oh, I've been around the world. It's a big place, a lot of people live on it. I met quite a few of 'em, liked some, didn't like others.

• Mark Sabre : Hello. Shopping?

  Nona Tyber : How did you guess?

  Mark Sabre : Elementary, my dear Watson.

• Mark Sabre : I told you not to send the car home, it's going to rain.

  Nona Tyber : Prophet!

• Nona Tyber : Is it wrong for us to tell each other what's in our hearts?

  Mark Sabre : Not if we keep it in our hearts and - never let it hurt anyone.

• Nona Tyber : Remember, a long time ago, you told me something. You said, "It sounds rather fine to say the world well lost for love, but, honor, honor's not well lost for anything."

  Mark Sabre : Did I say that? I must have been very wise then.

• Nona Tyber : I had to touch your hand to live in your world for a little while.

  Mark Sabre : My world? Where do you live?

  Nona Tyber : Oh, I don't live. I drift.

  Mark Sabre : Drift?

  Nona Tyber : The dictionary says of flotsam: "goods shipwrecked and found floating on the sea." When I read that, I crossed out "flotsam" and wrote "Nona." And don't dare say I'm feeling sorry for myself, because I am. But at least I know it.

• Mabel Sabre : Their job is to look after us. I didn't spend six solid months getting a staff together to have the whole thing upset by a war.

  Mark Sabre : Nor did Hitler.

• Nona Tyber : Sometimes I get the feeling that things are closing in.

  Mark Sabre : Shelley had something pretty comforting to say about that. Remember, "O wind, If winter comes." Give me your hand a moment, to help me hold onto the rest of those lines and believe them. "O wind, If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

• Mark Sabre : Have you seen the paper, Low?

  Sarah, 'Low Jinks' : Oh, yes, sir. Looks like war, don't it sir? But the milkman says it's going to be quite all right, sir.

  Mark Sabre : Oh, he does, does he.

  Sarah, 'Low Jinks' : Oh, yes. Owing to the French having got this imaginary line.

  Mabel Sabre : Maginot line.

  Sarah, 'Low Jinks' : That's it. George said we can all hide behind that till we're ready and then pop out and do 'em all in.

  Mark Sabre : Oh, well, thank you, Low. That's very reassuring.

• Mark Sabre : I have a job for Effie, if she wants it and if you approve. Friends of mine, wonderful people.

  Mr. Bright : What she needs is guidance and discipline in a God-fearing household.

• Sarah, 'Low Jinks' : She's been turned out. Turned out bag and baggage by that father of her's.

  Mark Sabre : Turned out? Whatever for?

  Natalie Bagshaw : Oh, really Mark. Must you be so naive?

  Sarah, 'Low Jinks' : She's going to have a baby, sir.

  Natalie Bagshaw : On the wrong side of the blanket, as they say.

• Mabel Sabre : I do think it was very funny that Miss Bright to send for you. After all, the proper thing to have done...

  Mark Sabre : Oh, for goodness sake, can't you leave the girl alone?

  Mabel Sabre : I can. Can *you*?

• Mark Sabre : This is a people's war - and we're the people, with a voice, if we can make it heard.

• Mark Sabre : Come. Sit down here now and have a cup of tea. There you are. Think of all the great decisions that have been made in this world over a cup of tea.