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Lady Richard: [observing the strict "Women and Children" first policy on the port side of the Boat Deck] It's absurd. On the other side the gentlemen are going in the boats with their ladies. Why on earth we're standing here, I don't know.
Sir Richard: But... Well, there'll be room in the boats for everybody.
Lady Richard: Of course there will.
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Robbie Lucas: Oh, Mister Andrews?
Andrews: Yes?
Robbie Lucas: I'd like you to tell me something. I... I have a wife and three children on board. Just how serious is it?
[Andrews hesitates]
Robbie Lucas: I'm not the panicking kind.
Andrews: The ship has about an hour to live. A little more, if some of the upper bulkheads hold, but not much more. Get your wife and children into the boats.
Robbie Lucas: Thank you.
[Andrews walks off]
Robbie Lucas: Oh, Mister Andrews?
[Andrews stops and turns around]
Robbie Lucas: I take it you and I might both be in the same boat later?
Andrews: [smiles sadly] Yes... We may.
Glyn Houston
Extended Reading