Island in the Sun (1957)

Diana Wynyard: Mrs. Betty Fleury

Quotes 

• Maxwell Fleury : [reading from a newspaper]  "Presumably they did not know that Julian Fleury's mother, who died in childbirth, was a Jamaican with native ancestry" Is it true?

  Julian Fleury : It's true.

  Maxwell Fleury : What were you lashing out when you tried to slap me? Your own guilt, your betrayal of us?

  Julian Fleury : Betrayal? Your mother never knew?

  Maxwell Fleury : She knew. Didn't you mother?

  Mrs. Fleury : I knew.

  Julian Fleury : But how?

  Mrs. Fleury : An anonymous letter. Came ten years ago.

  Julian Fleury : And you never mentioned it?

  Julian Fleury : I saw no reason to. I wanted to keep things as they were.

  Maxwell Fleury : Faithful wife. Noble mother.

  Julian Fleury : Maxwell, stop it.

  Jocelyn Fleury : How do you expect him to feel? How do you think I feel? To believe that you belong to one kind of a world and then suddenly... when I asked you if there was any reason that I shouldn't marry Euan, you said no.

  Julian Fleury : I said that was no *good* reason.

  Jocelyn Fleury : How can you say that? Euan's heir to a title. Can you picture a black man sitting in the House of Lords if we had a son?

  Julian Fleury : There's no need to exaggerate. My mother was three-quarters white, I've only one-sixteenth colored blood. The chances are your children will be *completely* white.

• Mrs. Fleury : I must ask you for the same consideration you asked me. I'd rather your father... I'd rather my husband didn't know.

  Jocelyn Fleury : You were always so devoted. I never conceived the possibility of another man in your life.

  Mrs. Fleury : Children don't. They think mistakes are their privilege.

• Mrs. Fleury : I'd rather your father - I'd rather my husband, didn't know.

  Jocelyn Fleury : You were always so devoted. I never conceived the possibility of another man in your life.

  Mrs. Fleury : Children don't. They think mistakes are their privilege.

• Mrs. Fleury : Very well. I owe you this. You need have no qualms about marrying Euan. There isn't a drop of African blood in your veins. My husband isn't your father.

• Mrs. Fleury : Of course, you know that you've behaved stupidly. You've behaved like a peasant girl in the cane fields. Now, I suppose that's neither here nor there. It's the future that matters.

• Jocelyn Fleury : In about three months, I want to go to Canada. I want to start making the arrangements now.

  Mrs. Fleury : Canada? Why on earth do you want to go there?

  Jocelyn Fleury : Because I'm pregnant.

  Mrs. Fleury : Does Euan know?

  [Jocelyn shakes her head no] 

  Mrs. Fleury : You're sure that you are?

  Jocelyn Fleury : There isn't any doubt.

  Mrs. Fleury : Well, you're certainly calm about it. You might show some shame, some guilt.

  Jocelyn Fleury : If it will make you feel any happier, I feel quite guilty.