Wedding Rehearsal (1932)

Lady Tree: Countess of Stokeshire

Quotes 

• Earl of Stokeshire : You understand me, Susan? You must tell the girls, I won't have it!

  Countess of Stokeshire : Yes, dear, I'll tell them. But, you know, they really never take any notice of what you say...

  Earl of Stokeshire : I know nothing of the sort! As their father and the head of this household, I respectfully submit that -

  Countess of Stokeshire : [interrupting]  That's what I say, you have to.

  Earl of Stokeshire : Have to what?

  Countess of Stokeshire : Respectfully submit!

• Countess of Stokeshire : We were afraid our cable wouldn't catch you!

  Harry : Oh, yes, it caught me all right.

  Earl of Stokeshire : Weren't you surprised?

  Harry : Never so knocked over in all my life!

  Lady Rose Mary : But what did you say, Uncle?

  Harry : I said, Bl-bless the children, they've bagged a brace of princes or grand-dukes, I'll be bound. Eh, my dears?

  Lady Rose Mary : Well, Uncle, they're not exactly...

  Lady Mary Rose : Oh, who cares about a title anyhow?

  Harry : Mmm. Of course, of course... if you love him, it doesn't matter if he's called Thompson!

  Tootles : [clearing throat]  As a matter of fact, my name IS Thompson.

  Harry : Never worry, my dear boy! I daresay you've done nothing to deserve it!

• Countess of Stokeshire : I suppose... I suppose you've no idea what it is I want to talk to you about?

  Lady Mary Rose : No, Mumsy, darling.

  Countess of Stokeshire : Oh, what a pity! I-I-I'd hoped you'd help me out a little.

  Lady Rose Mary : Well, darling, if you tell us what it's all about, we'll do our best.

  Countess of Stokeshire : Well, you see, in these days, almost everything is-is made by machinery. And that-that might have given you wrong ideas.

  Lady Mary Rose : How do you mean, darling?

  Countess of Stokeshire : Well... well, when-when I was a girl, chickens used to lay their own eggs. But now they're all born in glass boxes... like cuckoos.

  Lady Rose Mary : But cuckoos aren't born in glass boxes, darling!

  Lady Mary Rose : She means incubators.

  Countess of Stokeshire : Yes, darling, that's right. That's right. Well-well, you-you mustn't expect anything of that sort.

  Lady Rose Mary : We don't, my angel.

  Countess of Stokeshire : [playing nervously with her handkerchief]  You see, when I first married your father, he didn't-he didn't look to me at all the kind of man to go and have twins.

  Lady Mary Rose : But, darling, he didn't have them, you did!

  Countess of Stokeshire : Yes... yes, in a way, but-but... he-he gave me the idea. Do you know what I mean?

• Earl of Stokeshire : Didn't your mother tell you anything before you were married?

  Countess of Stokeshire : Certainly not, such things were never mentioned in my family. In any case I knew them already.