Young Cassidy (1965)

Pauline Delaney: Bessie Ballynoy

Quotes 

• Bessie Ballynoy : [alone in Johnny's room after entering unannounced with the partially flimsy excuse of simply checking on him do to current political unrest and raids]  You're a fine, heavenly built young fella. And you're a good young man, and would never take advantage of a woman alone in your room at the dead of night with nothin' but a loose tablecloth between you and this swift bit a-courtin'. Would you?

  [he grins at her obvious advances, grabs her face intimately, and they begin to kiss as she immediately unrrobes and effortlessy puts out the candle with only two fingers] 

  John Cassidy : [in the dark]  I got me hand caught in your tablecloth.

  Bessie Ballynoy : I haven't a tablecloth on.

• John Cassidy : [walking down the staircase]  Do you mind if I get past?

  Bessie Ballynoy : I'd never stop you, darling. Are you livin' here then?

  John Cassidy : I moved in with Mick Mullen. Me name's Johnny Cassidy.

  Bessie Ballynoy : Do you believe in good neighborliness, Johnny?

  John Cassidy : Well, I suppose you have to when you're livin' on top of each other, like this bunch here.

  Bessie Ballynoy : Then, we'll be seein' each other.

• Bessie Ballynoy : Don't you think you better go back to your own room, Mrs. Ballynoy. Or, there might be somebody prowlin' around and think the worst.

  John Cassidy : Aye, they're bad minds the lot of 'em! That's why I've locked the door.

  Bessie Ballynoy : You've?

  John Cassidy : So, you can light the candle now. I feel terribly shy in this get-up. After washin' the one good nightgown I had, I was sleepin' in me skin - and this tablecloth was the first thing that came to hand when the Tans came thunderin' on the door.