The Beiderbecke Affair (TV Mini Series)

We Call It the White Economy (1985)

Barbara Flynn: Jill Swinburne

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Quotes 

• Big Al : [Totting up the additional LP records Trevor wants to buy]  I make it that you owe us for 19 records at two quid a throw, equals 38 quid less cash discount and goodwill. Call it 35 quid - how's that?

  Trevor Chaplin : [Astonished at the bargain and starts to dig out cash from his pocket]  That's amazing!

  Big Al : Good, I like to amaze people! You don't have to pay right now.

  Trevor Chaplin : No, I don't like being in debt.

  Jill Swinburne : His old mother used to say 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be'.

  Trevor Chaplin : No she didn't. It's what I believe in...

  Trevor Chaplin : [to Jill, realising he's not got quite enough cash]  Can you lend us a quid?

• Mr. Carter : [On Mr. Wheeler, the chronically annoyed headmaster]  He had an unhappy childhood.

  Jill Swinburne : He was never a child. He was born middle-aged and miserable!

  Mr. Carter : Lucky chap! I had to achieve it the hard way!

• Trevor Chaplin : [Jill had screamed on discovering an unwelcome newcomer to her class]  I still think it's a lot of fuss over a dead cat.

  Jill Swinburne : You wouldn't have liked it!

  Trevor Chaplin : [On the 'gift' that had been left for him]  I had a noose and I didn't scream.

  Jill Swinburne : [Sarcastic]  You big, brave, macho, incredible hulk, you!

  Trevor Chaplin : I just got up on the desk and took it down. As my mother used to say, 'No noose is good noose!'

  Jill Swinburne : [Unappreciative of Trevor's attempt at humour]  Gordon Bennett!

  Trevor Chaplin : You don't even like cats.

  Jill Swinburne : It's not the cat - it's the... death aspect.

  Trevor Chaplin : I wonder if they killed it specially or just found it somewhere.

  Jill Swinburne : Oh, that's awful.

  Trevor Chaplin : [Unperturbed and scoffing his school lunch]  Just making a rational analysis of the situation.

  Jill Swinburne : [Referring to Trevor's meal]  I think it's the same sort of dead cat as they use in that!

  Trevor Chaplin : [Puts down his cutlery, suddenly no longer hungry] 

  Jill Swinburne : I think somebody is trying to frighten us. Successfully.

  Trevor Chaplin : Uh-huh.

  Jill Swinburne : You're frightened?

  Trevor Chaplin : Oh, yes. I only *pretend* to be brave.

  Jill Swinburne : I think I might need somebody to give me a cuddle tonight.

  Trevor Chaplin : Me too.

  Jill Swinburne : See Mrs Swinburne in her classroom after school.

  Trevor Chaplin : [Teasing]  You what! I'm not going in *her* classroom - it's full of dead cats!

  Jill Swinburne : I don't find that funny, Trevor!

  Trevor Chaplin : [Darkly]  I don't suppose it was a barrel of laughs for the cat, either.