All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Bette Davis: Henriette Deluzy-Desportes

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• Duc de Praslin : Why are you smiling? May I share whatever pleases you so?

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : You will think I am very silly, I'm afraid, but standing here like this with the snow falling reminds of something I used to know. Do you remember a little round glass globe that...

  Duc de Praslin : Oh yes, I know, with a snow scene inside. We had a paperweight on a desk at home like that. You shook it and the snow whirled around out from nowhere in a blinding storm.

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Yes, that's exactly what I mean.

  Duc de Praslin : And if you looked closely enough the whole world seemed to be obliberated and shut out.

• Duc de Praslin : Oh, please don't go. Don't even move.

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Why?

  Duc de Praslin : I might say don't move because, as you sit there, the firelight is so beautiful on your hair. I might say don't move because this is All Souls' Day, and you mustn't disturb the spirits. And again, I might say don't move because this is a moment so full of understanding that I can't bear to see it come to an end.

• Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Happiness isn't a little cake which we can cut up to fill our appetites.

• Duchesse de Praslin : Mademoiselle Deluzy, just a moment.

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : But, Madame, I'm supposed to... Monsieur's downstairs...

  Duchesse de Praslin : Monsieur's downstairs, yes. I am here to make sure that you understand, this time you've gone too far, Mademoiselle. You are to leave this house into which you've brought evil and sin!

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Yes, Madame, there is evil in this house, but it was here before I came. 'Twas not I who brought it.

  Duchesse de Praslin : What intrigue there is beneath that mask of innocence! It was not enough for you to be a governess! No, you had to conspire to become the mistress of my household! To steal from me everything that was mine, including the affections of my children!

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Affections can not be stolen, Madame, they are given freely or not at all. If you'd ever been a mother to your children, if you'd earned their love instead of driving them away, nothing I could've done would ever make them turn away from you to...

  Duchesse de Praslin : You've used them shamelessly to attract him! To separate him from me!

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Is it possible you've finally deceived yourself into believing...

  Duchesse de Praslin : Have you not one shred of decency? How dare he entice you to come here to confess that you and he... to admit openly without delicacy that you...

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Why do you stop? I challenge you to accuse me of what you know is not true!

  Duchesse de Praslin : I am not here to challenge you in a matter that is personable between myself and Monsieur le Duc! I am here to dismiss an unsatisfactory servant!

• Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : I can't help but feel this time you'll pay very dearly.

  Duc de Praslin : I always pay. Sometimes I pay most for what I never had. It is not unfair that for a few days I've had what I can never pay for.

• Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : In your unhappiness you reached out your hand for help and in my loneliness I took it.

• Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : You may not have learned much French today, but I think you have learned a little patience and tolerance and that is the same in every language.

• Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : If love is right, it is the most precious gift in the world. But you must be sure - very sure - that it is right, for if it isn't, there is no worse agony, nothing more bitter, nothing more lonely to be imagined.

• Pierre : There on the left, the lights in her rooms are burning, and there on the right, the lights in his room are burning and between them is that long passage where the lights never burn. Suppose some night you saw that passage lighted? Would you share your feeling then with all the world?

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : You'd better go now, Pierre.

  Pierre : I'll go. I'll go, because I see it's too late to give you any warning. You're caught in the net and you don't even wish to escape. Good night, Mademoiselle.

• Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Yes, Monsieur le Duc.