The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Heads Have Rolled for Less (2022)

Louisa Jacobson: Marian Brook

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• Agnes Van Rhijn : These people. You shut the door, they come in the window. You shut the window, they come down the chimney. They never give up.

  Marian Brook : But isn't that a good thing?

• Ada Brook : She says the opera war is really heating up.

  Marian Brook : Why does there have to be a war? Why can't the Academy create more boxes for the new people to rent?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Because the Academy of Music is one of the last bastions of decency and standards in this city. We will not patronize any jumped-up opera house, however loud and gaudy it may be.

• Marian Brook : I'm just thinking about the poor men in the train crash.

  Peggy Scott : Oh, I feel for their wives. Making dinner, expecting their husbands to be home at any moment.

  Marian Brook : Suppose the truth is, you never know what's coming next.

  Peggy Scott : So we should try to get the most out of what's happening now.

  Marian Brook : Sometimes it's hard to be quite sure of what is happening now.

• Marian Brook : Aren't some fights worth having?

  Peggy Scott : Not if it's going to make me late for my meeting.

  Marian Brook : I don't understand.

  Peggy Scott : You've just discovered injustice. I've lived with it my whole life. If I spent every day fighting with bigots, I'd never get anything done.

• Marian Brook : It's a brave man who contradicts his own clients.

• Marian Brook : I wish I could see what he's done wrong.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I've told you. He's an adventurer. I suppose he's worming his way into every ballroom in the city?

  Marian Brook : It's true people invite him, but that's because he's pleasant and popular. Everyone likes him.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Everyone except me. Be warned, my dear. He won't need you much longer if he keeps this up. Any minute now, he'll see his chance and move on to more glittering prizes.

  Ada Brook : Agnes. What a horrid thing to say.

  Marian Brook : You don't know him, Aunt Agnes.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I know his type. And I am never wrong.

  Marian Brook : You're wrong this time.

• Ada Brook : Agnes has had a run-in with Bannister, and I'd rather keep the evening smooth.

  Marian Brook : I won't bring it up. What's Bannister done?

  Ada Brook : I'm not certain. He seems to have got involved with some sort of religious lawyer who thinks we're wrong to eat luncheon. But I may be a bit muddled.

• Marian Brook : If you'd seen her there, alone and surrounded like Custer at Little Big Horn, facing the annihilation of everything she believes...

• Agnes Van Rhijn : She has ensnared Mr. McAllister and dragged him to her lair?

  Marian Brook : I think he's just coming to luncheon.