James Norton credited as playing...
Oliver Ashford
- Oliver Ashford: [referring to Dido Elizabeth Belle] She is intriguing, is she not?
- James Ashford: [staring contemptuously at Dido] I find her repulsive.
- Oliver Ashford: Well, I suppose she is... if you find a most rare and exotic flower so.
- James Ashford: [contemptuously] One does not make a wife of the the rare and exotic, Oliver. One samples it on the cotton fields of the Indies.
- Oliver Ashford: [chuckles] Why so far when it is right at my door?
- James Ashford: Then find a pure English rose to decorate one's home.
- Lady Ashford: You will refrain from any intercourse with the negro. Lord and Lady Mansfield may find it fascinating to have a Lady Mulatto running around in their house, but I will not have one running around in mine.
- Oliver Ashford: She is an heiress.
- Lady Ashford: Although exceptions can be made.
- Oliver Ashford: It is said that her father left her a rather vast fortune.
- Lady Ashford: I mean to say, if that is your inclination.
- Oliver Ashford: She is rather soft on the eye. I have thought no further of it, Mama.
- Lady Ashford: Where do you get your information?
- Oliver Ashford: Her sister-cousin has a rather fast tongue.