Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: I hope I'm not keeping you from your guests.
Fern Simon: Oh, they're not *my* guests. That's mother's idea of "high society." They're all excited because YOU'RE here.
Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: Really? Should I be flattered?
Fern Simon: They say dreadful things about you...
Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: [playfully whispers] What sort of things?
Fern Simon: That you're a drunkard, and a bounder, and a remittance man... They'll hang around you just the same, because your father was an earl.


--Brenda Joyce (as ) in The Rains Came

Miss Ruby Burke: What's the matter, Benny? You're lower than a caterpillar with fallen arches.


--Brenda Joyce (as Miss Ruby Burke) in Little Giant