Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)

Margaret Leighton: Lady Melbourne

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  Lady Melbourne : [sternly about Lady Caroline]  Look sir, I must tell my son that she is dead. What am I to tell him that she died of.

  Physician : I can only repeat, madam: her nervous system was both morbidly delicate and unnaturally fearful, and was, in the end, overwhelmed.

  Lady Melbourne : [angrily]  With what?

  Physician : If I could tell you that, I would be a philosopher, not a physician.

  Lady Melbourne : [exasperated]  Well, I do not understand.

  Mrs. Buller : [tearfully]  I dare say you don't, mum. A broken heart. That's what she died of.

  Lady Melbourne : [matter-of-factly after pondering it for a few seconds]  My God. Wouldn't she!