The Road to Singapore (1931)

Doris Kenyon: Philippa Crosby March

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• Dr. George March : [Upon finding his wife at Dawltry's house]  There's going to be no scandal in my house. But Dawltry is leaving Khota for good!

  Philippa Crosby March : And so am I, George. And I'm also leaving YOU. I came out here in search of love, and happiness. I found instead a machine - a machine of cold steel. As cold as the instruments you use to probe the bodies of unconscious patients on operating tables... Nursing hasn't changed me from a woman. But surgery in the tropics has changed the man I came to marry. So I turned to Hugh Dawltry for the love and affection you didn't give me.

  Dr. George March : If I didn't know that you were suffering from a pathological complaint common to the tropics, I should think you were neurotic. It's just a physical heat wave!

  Dr. George March : [Now turning to glare at Hugh Dawltry]  And that CAD took advantage of it!

  Philippa Crosby March : But not of me, George. YOU did that! All you wanted was a wife. ANY woman would have done as well. And some other woman can take my place from now on!

• Philippa Crosby March : Rene is just a child.

  Dr. George March : She is eighteen. That's a woman in the tropics.

  Philippa Crosby March : But George.

  Dr. George March : The heat is bad enough on married women. But on young girls it is dynamite. It makes them man-crazy.

• Philippa Crosby March : Men have such different and peculiar definitions of love. To a woman, there can be only one meaning - to be loved.

• Philippa Crosby March : George, I have my new shoes on.

  Dr. George March : Oh, did I step all over them?

  Philippa Crosby March : Well, there may be one tiny spot you missed.

• Philippa Crosby March : If a woman can't hold a man, it's her own fault.

• Philippa Crosby March : I came out here in search of love and happiness. I found instead, a machine. A machine of cold steel. As cold as the instruments you use to probe into the bodies of unconscious patients on operating tables. Nursing hadn't changed me from a woman. But surgery and the tropics had changed the man I came to marry. So, I turned to Hugh Dawltry for the love and affection you didn't give me.

• Philippa Crosby March : Where is everybody, do you suppose?

  Hugh Dawltry : Well, there only three places in this town where they could be. The bar of the club. The card room of the club. Or the swimming pool of the club.

• Hugh Dawltry : This is my house.

  Philippa Crosby March : And just why did you bring me here?

  Hugh Dawltry : To get acquainted. You were such a stranger aboard the boat.

  Philippa Crosby March : I'm still a stranger.

  Hugh Dawltry : I hope you won't be after dinner. My houseboy is really a very excellent cook.

  Philippa Crosby March : And I suppose his master is an excellent entertainer?

  Hugh Dawltry : Ah, that depends upon the audience.

  Philippa Crosby March : The audience is leaving. Without any sign of applause.

• Philippa Crosby March : How flushed your face is.

  Rene March : [standing in front of a mirror in lingerie]  It must be excitement.

  Philippa Crosby March : Excitement?

  Rene March : Who wouldn't be excited? Another dinner at the Gymkhana Club with the same old Nikko to take me. And the same fussy old people to dance with. I think I'll create a diversion and go like this.

  Philippa Crosby March : Rene!

  [spanks Rene's bottom] 

  Rene March : Ow! It is a bore and you know it.

  Philippa Crosby March : You are too young to be bored.

  Rene March : Married people aren't the only ones to suffer that way.

  Philippa Crosby March : And you're much too young to be cynical.

  [lights a cigarette] 

• Rene March : I suppose George is alright as husbands go. But if I were married, I'd want my husband with me always. You hardly ever see him unless you go to the hospital .. And sit in that smelly waiting room full of native patients. George is my brother but he is not my type for a husband.

  Philippa Crosby March : Rene March, what have you been reading?

  Rene March : You'd be surprised.

• Rene March : He pokes his fingers into everything.

  Philippa Crosby March : George is a doctor, my dear.

• Dr. George March : Something has got to be done.

  Philippa Crosby March : Why worry about something that can't be undone?

• Philippa Crosby March : I'm taking the boat that leaves at dawn for Singapore. And nothing you can say or do will stop me.