Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Margaret Leighton: Lady Melbourne
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Lady Melbourne : [sternly about Lady Caroline] Look sir, I must tell my son that she is dead. What am I to tell him that she died of.
Physician : I can only repeat, madam: her nervous system was both morbidly delicate and unnaturally fearful, and was, in the end, overwhelmed.
Lady Melbourne : [angrily] With what?
Physician : If I could tell you that, I would be a philosopher, not a physician.
Lady Melbourne : [exasperated] Well, I do not understand.
Mrs. Buller : [tearfully] I dare say you don't, mum. A broken heart. That's what she died of.
Lady Melbourne : [matter-of-factly after pondering it for a few seconds] My God. Wouldn't she!