-The Winslow Boy- (1999)
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The charge:
"Sir, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inform you that they have received a communication from the Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval College at Osbourne, reporting the theft of a five-shilling postal order at the College on the 7th instant, which was afterwards cashed at the Post Office. Investigation of the circumstances of the case leaves no other conclusion possible than that the postal order was cashed by your son, Cadet Ronald Arthur Winslow. My Lords deeply regret that they must therefore request you to withdraw your son from the College. I am, sir, your obedient servant."
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"VIOLET" (maid):
"Miss Cate- Miss Cate- I don't know how to tell you. Just after they came back from lunch, Mrs. Winslow she wasn't there neither, nor Master Ronnie. Shouting, the carrying-on-- you never heard anything like it in all your life and Sir Robert standing there at the table with his wig on crooked and tears running down his face- running down his face they were. Cook and me, we did a bit of crying, too. Everyone was cheering, the judge kept on shouting. It wasn't any good. Even the jury joined in."
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"ARTHUR" (patriarch):
"Thank you, Violet. It would appear, then, that we've won."
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"CATHERINE" (daughter):
"Yes, father. It would appear that we've won."
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"VIOLET" (announcing the arrival of Sir Robert Morton):
"Sir Robert Morton."
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"CATHERINE":
"On this point. Why are you ashamed of your emotions?"
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"SIR ROBERT":
"To fight a case on emotional grounds is the surest way to lose it."
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"CATHERINE":
"Is it?"
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"SIR ROBERT":
"Emotions cloud the issue. Cold, clear logic wins the day."
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"CATHERINE":
"Was it cold, clear logic that made you weep today at the verdict?"
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"SIR ROBERT":
"I wept today because right had been done."
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"CATHERINE":
"Not justice?"
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"SIR ROBERT":
"No, not justice. Right. Easy to do justice, very hard to do right. Well, now I must leave the witness box. Miss Winslow, I hope I shall see you again. One day perhaps in the House of Commons, up in the Gallery?"
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"CATHERINE":
"Yes, Sir Robert. In the House of Commons one day, but not up in the Gallery. Across the floor, one day."
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"SIR ROBERT":
"You still pursue your feminist activities?" (women's suffrage)
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"CATHERINE":
"Oh yes."
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"SIR ROBERT":
"Pity. It's a lost cause."
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"CATHERINE":
"Oh, do you really think so, Sir Robert? How little you know about women. Goodbye. I doubt that we shall meet again."
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"SIR ROBERT":
"Oh, do you really think so, Miss Winslow? How little you know about men."
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-The End-
-The Winslow Boy- (1999)