The Gilded Age (TV Series)
Never the New (2022)
Cynthia Nixon: Ada Brook
Quotes
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Mrs. Bauer : I think she may brighten the place up a bit.
Ada Brook : Yes, that's rather what Mrs. Van Rhijn is afraid of.
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Agnes Van Rhijn : Now, you need to know we only receive the old people in this house, not the new. Never the new.
Marian Brook : What's the difference?
Agnes Van Rhijn : The old have been in charge since before the revolution. They ruled justly until the new people invaded.
Ada Brook : It's not quite as simple as that.
Agnes Van Rhijn : Yes, it is.
Marian Brook : Well, I'm new. I've only just arrived.
Agnes Van Rhijn : Marian, never mind that the Brooks have been in Pennsylvania for a century and a half. My mother, your grandmother, was a Livingston of Livingston Manor, and they came to this city in 1674. You belong to old New York, my dear, and don't let anyone tell you different. You are my niece, and you belong to old New York.
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Ada Brook : At least there's a railway station in Doylestown now, unlike in our day, but she'll need to get up early to catch the first train to Lansdale, and then she'll have to change at Bethlehem and take the Lehigh Valley Railroad to Exchange Place in Jersey City, and then catch the ferry across the Hudson to Desbrosses Street. From there, she could take an elevated train...
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Ada Brook : We should have gone for the funeral anyway.
Agnes Van Rhijn : It wasn't worth an uncomfortable day of travel to make sure Henry was dead.
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Ada Brook : It's an invitation.
Agnes Van Rhijn : Addressed to us?
Ada Brook : They were bound to entertain soon. They can't have built that great house to sit by the fire and read.
Agnes Van Rhijn : Well, let them entertain their own sort. Heaven knows there are plenty to choose from.
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Marian Brook : Training orphans to be servants?
Ada Brook : To save them from... something worse.
Agnes Van Rhijn : There's no need to go into that.
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Ada Brook : I only ask that you never break your own moral code, for that is the soundest guide any of us can have.
