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Alexander: Take your nightdress off. Face the wall. Face the wall!
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Katherine: I'd rather stop you breathing than have you doubt how I feel.
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Katherine: Do you love me?
Sebastian: Of course.
Katherine: Do you adore me?
Sebastian: Of course.
Katherine: Could you do without me?
Sebastian: [smiles in silence]
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Sebastian: A bitch gets restless if she's tied up too long.
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Boris: I have no desire to see you, until I've had time to consider what to do with you.
Katherine: Let him out.
Boris: You are entirely without shame.
Katherine: I have nothing to be ashamed of.
Boris: Nothing to be ashamed of?... Do you have any idea of the damage that you're capable of bringing upon this family? You have failed miserably in all of your marital duties, more specifically, to provide your husband with a legitimate heir.
Katherine: Where is your son? Where is he?... He has made that impossible.
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Katherine: [Pointing at Sebastian's belt on the floor] I found it in the fields.
Alexander: And decided to keep it?
Katherine: Holds my skirts up.
Alexander: Are you skirts in danger of falling down?
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Alexander: So... you have become a whore in my absence, Katherine... You think me to be stupid, perhaps... But perhaps you had no idea that your whoring had been noticed... You seem surprised... And surprised that the news of you opening your legs and your cunt for any worthless dog should have traveled across the county and reached my ears, but then you opened your legs so very wide, Katherine... And you've acted so very shamelessly and so very stupidly. And you've begun to smell, Katherine... You've gotten so fat - and foul-smelling, it was inevitable that the whole county would hear of your behaviour. My father bought you - along with a piece of land not fit enough for a cow to graze upon. I do not like being talked about, Madame. I do not like being laughed at. I do not like owning a whore!
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Sebastian: I thought you said he couldn't fuck you.
Katherine: He couldn't.
Sebastian: Or wouldn't.
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Sebastian: She's a disease!
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Anna: Are you cold?
Katherine: No.
Anna: Nervous?
Katherine: No.
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Boris: I leave for London this morning. You'll be on your own for awhile. Perhaps you'll find that your energy is restored after a little of your own company. And when your husband returns, you can resume your duties with more rigor, Madame.
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Boris: You haven't been running the house in my absence.
Katherine: I have.
Boris: That wasn't a question.
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Boris: Where's your husband?
Katherine: Wherever you put him.
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Boris: Do you not think it necessary to keep an account of what happens to my property in this household? All my property! Might I assume you drank it.
Anna: No, sir.
Boris: And yet you have no other explanation.
Anna: No, sir.
Boris: Get down.
Anna: Sir?
Boris: On your hands and knees. You behave like an animal and I'll treat you like an animal. Now, get out!
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Boris: You've had enough time to contemplate, I hope, and to take the opportunity to meditate upon your duties as a *wife*, Katherine, in this household above anything else.
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Katherine: Tell me about your family, Anna. Tell me about your home.
Anna: I haven't been home in a very long time, ma'am. I'm not sure I know what home is.
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Alexander: You've grown fatter!
Katherine: The cook has made an effort to find food to my taste, perhaps.
Alexander: And your face is fatter. You're all together larger than when I left.
Katherine: Perhaps you'd like some tea.
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Alexander: You will alter your behavior, Madame.
Katherine: And how will I alter my behavior, Sir?
Alexander: You will never see that man again. He will be sent from this house and you will remain here, *indoors*, with your prayer book.
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Sebastian: Every time I close my eyes, I see his face.
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Sebastian: It's making me sick. I feel - sick. Constantly.
Katherine: It won't end unless you let it.
Sebastian: You let it?
Katherine: For you - and for me.
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Sebastian: It's too late!
Katherine: It doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be - if you trust me!
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Teddy: What are those, Ma'am?
Katherine: Swallows. Look. Watch them fly. Aren't they beautiful?
Teddy: I think you're beautiful.
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[last lines]
Katherine: I did - nothing.
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