The Major and the Minor (1942)

Rita Johnson: Pamela Hill

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• Major Kirby : Why don't they send me to Trinidad or the Canal Zone or Iceland? Anywhere.

  Pamela Hill : Well, why not worry about that when and if there is a war?

• Pamela Hill : The first wedding presents have arrived. We'll always have plenty of pickle forks.

• Pamela Hill : Does this room always have to smell of sulphuric acid?

• Major Kirby : During the first shift, I happened to see her with one of the boys at the cannon, and, frankly, I was worried.

  Pamela Hill : For whom? The boy?

  Major Kirby : For her, of course. You can't suddenly throw a young girl among 300 cadets.

  Pamela Hill : In the merry month of May.

• Pamela Hill : When you felt the urge to become an Uncle, you should have found a less inflammatory niece.

• Pamela Hill : A war widow with no war in sight! No! It's too idiotic.

• Pamela Hill : Philip, guess who came to rescue you?

  [singing] 

  Pamela Hill : You can't get him up / You can't get him up / You can't get him up / In the morning.

• Pamela Hill : Oh, Philip, you adorable man! How utterly beguiling!

• Pamela Hill : You're lunching at the officer's mess, Su-Su. You'll find it too beguiling.

• Pamela Hill : Oh, Philip, you're too beguiling. She's perfectly all right. Lucy dried her off.

• Pamela Hill : Not bad, now that your finger is out of your mouth.

• Pamela Hill : Oh, glory!

• Pamela Hill : Oh, good glory, Philip!

• Major Kirby : Pamela, I think you ought to talk to her. You know...

  Pamela Hill : Facts of life?

  Major Kirby : Yes.

  Pamela Hill : No, thank you, darling.

• Pamela Hill : Don't you think we should discuss it a little? It's rather radical.

• Pamela Hill : You ought to be asleep... and Su-Su too.