Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) You thought I was
going to kiss you, didn't you?
Lina (Joan Fontaine) Weren't you?
Johnnie Of course not. I was merely reaching
around you, trying to fix your hair.
Lina What's wrong with my hair?
Johnnie Well, I'm glad you asked me that. It would've been extremely discourteous for me to bring the subject up.
Johnnie Your hair's all wrong. It has such wonderful possibilities that I, well, I got excited. For the moment I became a, a passionate hairdresser.
Lina starts to button her blouse.
Johnnie Don't do that.
Lina Why not?
Johnnie Because your ucipital mapilary is quite beautiful.
Lina I must go now or I'll be late to luncheon. Anyway, if my father saw me come in both late and beautiful, he might have a stroke.
Johnnie You're the first woman I've ever met who said yes when she meant yes.
Johnnie and Lina are facing a large portrait of her father.
Johnnie He doesn't like me.
Lina I know.
Johnnie He doesn't trust me from here to there.
(Speaking to portrait) Do you? Well, you're
right. I can only bring her unhappiness. Well, warn her. Speak up, man. It's
your last chance. (To Lina) Hear him?
Lina Very distinctly.
Johnnie He's not exaggerating a thing, dear.
It's all true, every word he isn't saying.
Lina I love him, father.
Johnnie Did you see him jump?
Lina I did.
Johnnie Well, watch this one. (Speaking to portrait) Sir, I have the honor of asking for your daughter's hand in marriage. Well, what do you say to that? (He begins tapping on the portrait and it falls off the wall) My oh my. You heard him that time, didn't you?
Lina asks Johnnie how he intends to support them.
Johnnie Well, if the worst comes to the worst and
there's no other way out, I'll have to--
Lina What?
Johnnie Borrow some more.
Lina to a mystery novelist I was completely
fascinated by the way your villain--
Isobel Sedbusk (Auriol Lee) My villain? My hero, you mean. I always think of my murderers as my heroes.
Lina When he enticed his victim across the
footbridge, knowing that the bridge has been sawn through--
Isobel He also knew that his victim couldn't swim.
Don't forget that.
Lina Well, what I want to know is this. Would
you call that an actual murder?
Isobel Well, from a moral standpoint there's no question at all. It is murder.
Johnnie If you're going to kill somebody, do it simply.
Isobel You couldn't hurt a fly, Bertram, unless it was already dead.
Isobel Imagine a substance in daily use
everywhere. Anyone can lay his hands on it, and within a minute after
taking, the victim's beautifully out of the way. Mind you, it's undetectable
after death.
Lina Is whatever it is, painful?
Isobel Oh, not in the least. In fact I should think it'd be a most pleasant death.