Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)

Rupert Friend: Ludo, The Writer

Quotes 

• Ludo : You know, I'm enjoying this too much. Do you think that is wicked?

  Mrs Palfrey : No. Enjoy it as much as you can. I've never enjoyed myself more... with my clothes on.

• Ludo : [voice over]  Even the most romantic aspects of her life were framed in a square of her realistic practicality. She knew there were signs to move on. However, the question this time was where to and what for?

• Ludo : [voice over]  She danced around her memories with the agile step of a young girl, her stories became vivid to the young couple's eyes, and all of a sudden the past became the present - for a little while.

• Ludo : [voice over]  She began to run out of excuses or explanations for why her grandson never called when suddenly she realized that nobody ever called.

• Ludo : [voice over]  It took her several drafts to write the perfect letter to her daughter, expressing, with restraint, her concern for Desmond's silence as, at many other times in her life, she questioned how the letter would be interpreted. Would she appear needy, or lonely, or both?

• [First lines] 

  Ludo : [voice over]  She came from a world of sensible choices. Nothing in her life had prepared her for the loud confusion of her unexpected present.

• Ludo : Good Lord! We are trapped in a Terence Rattigan play.

• Ludo : It's very important to praise people a lot early on. Otherwise they might die of disappintment.

• Mrs Palfrey : Lucky me, to have tripped into your life.

  Ludo : And vice versa.

• Ludo : Not just me. Anyone.

  Mrs Palfrey : Well, there isn't anyone else at the moment. You're the only one I can think of.

  Ludo : I... haven't many friends myself. One needs money to have friends.