My House in Umbria (2003 TV Movie)

Maggie Smith: Mrs. Delahunty

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• Mrs. Emily Delahunty : In the garden, delphiniums were in flower. Through scented twilight, the girl in the white dress walked with a step as light as a morning cobweb. That evening she hadn't a care in the world.

• Mrs. Emily Delahunty : [voiceover]  I was the only one who had not lost a loved one, having none to lose.

• Mrs. Emily Delahunty : I have several other names. Perhaps you might prefer one of them? Gloria Grey. Janine Ann Johns. Cora Lamont.

  Aimee : Why do you have so many names?

  Mrs. Emily Delahunty : Well, we have different clothes for different occasions. Why not have different names?

• Mrs. Emily Delahunty : [voiceover]  What kind of sickness, or malignancy, orders the death of strangers on a train? What kind of lunatic or devil? As I sat by the bed of the child's bed, I tried to imagine this wretched individual, protected, perhaps, by a mother, who had always believed that one day he would commit an unthinkable crime. But it was beyond my imagination.

• Mrs. Emily Delahunty : My real parents were... travellig entertainers. They had no use for a child. "Not the sort of people you'd care for", said the mother who wasn't my mother. The people I lived with couldn't have children. They bought me.

• Mrs. Emily Delahunty : [to Inspector Girotti]  Are you real or are you a dream?

• Aimee : Where's Werner?

  Mrs. Emily Delahunty : Who?

  Aimee : Werner. I haven't see him this morning, where is he?

  Mrs. Emily Delahunty : Oh dear, we can't say...

  Quinty : He went to live with some friends.

  Aimee : What kind of friends?

  Mrs. Emily Delahunty : Oh, just friends. Some rather special friends.