Room at the Top (1958)

Heather Sears: Susan Brown

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• [last lines] 

  Susan Brown : Joe, wasn't it absolutely the most wonderful wedding? Now we really belong to each other, till death us do part. Darling, you're crying! I believe you really are sentimental after all.

• Susan Brown : Gosh, I'm hot!

  Charles Soames : You shouldn't feel hot. You've nothing on.

• Susan Brown : Seriously Joe, there's something wrong, isn't there? Don't you like the way I make love?

  Charles Soames : Oh, I like it very much. It reminds me of a good set of mixed tennis.

• Mrs. Brown : What did you say his name was ?

  Susan Brown : Lampton, Joe Lampton.

  Mrs. Brown : Curious names some of these people have.

• Susan Brown : Tonight then.

  Joe Lampton : Oh, tonight will do like no other night has ever done.

• Joe Lampton : You know, you're the sort of girl I like to take out.

  Susan Brown : Why?

  Joe Lampton : Well, there's you're shape and you're size and the sheen in your hair, a sort of light in your eyes. Oh but, the most important, because, I think you're a dear-keeper.

  Susan Brown : A what?

  Joe Lampton : A dear-keeper.

  Susan Brown : What a lovely word! What does it mean?

  Joe Lampton : My mother used to call me that every time I used to ask her for something that cost more than she could afford.

  Susan Brown : I'd like to meet your mother, she sounds fun.

  Joe Lampton : She's dead.

• Susan Brown : Joe, why didn't you write?

  Joe Lampton : You didn't write either. Only postcards.

  Susan Brown : I was waiting for you to write. A girl can't write first. She can't if she has any pride.

• Susan Brown : Is that what prim Joe wants?

  Charles Soames : No, that's not what Joe wants. You know what Joe wants. It's what all the Joe's want.

  Susan Brown : Oh, Joe.