Of Human Bondage (1934)

Harry Allen: Cabbie at End

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Sally Athelny : Philip, you're free.

  Philip Carey : Yes, but suddenly... suddenly there's nowhere to go.

  Cabbie at End : Taxi, sir?

  Philip Carey : No thanks. No.

  [to Sally] 

  Philip Carey : I had to be free to realize that. I had to be free to understand that all those years that I'd dreamed of escape, it was because I was limping through life.

  Cabbie at End : Taxi, sir?

  Philip Carey : No thank you!

  [continuing] 

  Philip Carey : And because I was bound up with a person who was incredible to me. That's all over. I'm not limping anymore. My life's all right.

  Sally Athelny : Then why don't you go?

  Philip Carey : Because everything that's beautiful to me is... is right here. Won't you please marry me, Sally?

  Sally Athelny : If you like.

  Philip Carey : But don't you want to?

  Sally Athelny : Well, there's no one else I'd marry.

  [Philip goes to kiss her, but stops when a man on the street stares at them] 

  Cabbie at End : How about a taxi, sir?

  Philip Carey : What?

  Cabbie at End : How about a taxi?

  Philip Carey : Yes!

  [Philip and Sally get in the cab and kiss]