Jezebel (1938)

Margaret Lindsay: Amy Bradford Dillard

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• Julie : Amy, of course, it's your right to go; you're his wife. But are you fit to go? Loving him isn't enough. If you gave him all your strength, would it be enough?

  Amy Bradford Dillard : I'll make him live, or die with him.

  Julie : Amy... Amy, do you know the Creole word for fever powder? For food and water? How to talk to a sullen, overworked black boy and make him fear you and help you? Pres's life and yours will hang on things just like that, and you'll both surely die.

  Amy Bradford Dillard : Then it will have to be that way.

  Julie : It's not a question of proving your love by laying down your life for Pres. Nothing so easy. Have you the knowledge and the human strength to fight for his life and for your own as one will have to fight? Amy, it's no longer you or me.

  Amy Bradford Dillard : What do you mean?

  Julie : I'll make him live, I will. Whatever you might do, I can do more, 'cause I know how to fight better than you. Amy, if you knew the horror of that place. It isn't a hospital. It's a desolate island haunted by death. They'll put Pres in an open shed with a hundred others. You must be there with him day and night, watching every breath he draws. You must bathe him, keep him clean, give him drugs, fight for his food and water. You must keep the living from him and the dead. Be there by him with your body between him and Death.

• Julie : [in reference to the flowers]  Oh, Zette, aren't they beautiful!

  Zette : Yas'm, Miss Julie! Right nice and pretty!

  Amy Bradford Dillard : Right nice and pretty?

  [bursts out angrily] 

  Amy Bradford Dillard : Pretty enough for Ted's grave!

• Julie : Your wife?

  Amy Bradford Dillard : And you're, may I say, "Julie"?

  Julie : Pres's wife? You're funning.

  Preston Dillard : Hardly.

  Julie : Married? My felicitations, Pres.