The Runaway Bus (1954)

Margaret Rutherford: Miss Cynthia Beeston

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• Lee Nicholls : Your destination, Miss Beeston?

  Miss Cynthia Beeston : Dublin. Where else should I be going?

  Percy Lamb : Ho, ho, I'd love to tell her.

  Lee Nicholls : Shhh.

• Henry Waterman : For 2 and 6, a packet of 25 seeds. That are the silver medal, the Scottish petunia, trial petunias, called Naughty Marietta. Naughty Marietta is ideal for warm bedding.

  Miss Cynthia Beeston : Naughty, Mr. Waterman.

• Miss Cynthia Beeston : Its no good thinking negatively about things. Negative thought can do nothing! Positive thought can do anything!

• Miss Cynthia Beeston : What about that contrivance you invented during the war?

  Lee Nicholls : I'm sorry, madam, I - I.

  Miss Cynthia Beeston : That, eh, Pluto thingamajig? Burnt away the fog with something or other?

  Lee Nicholls : Oh, you mean Fido?

  Miss Cynthia Beeston : Pluto, Fido, Jumbo! It did away with fog, didn't it?

• Miss Cynthia Beeston : And don't call me madam! Miss, do I look like a madam?

• Miss Cynthia Beeston : Of course, I'm all right. I screamed! Haven't you ever screamed? Something went bang and instead of holding it in, I let it out. Don't fuss!