The Beiderbecke Affair Quotes

Jill Swinburne: I give you fair warning, Mr Chaplin. If you get engaged to that girl, I shall insist you move into the spare room.

Movie: The Beiderbecke Affair
[over school dinner, discussing the attempts to frighten them]
Trevor Chaplin: I still think it's a lot of fuss about a dead cat.
Jill Swinburne: *You* wouldn't have liked it.
Trevor Chaplin: I had a noose and I didn't scream.
Jill Swinburne: You big brave macho incredible hulk, you.
Trevor Chaplin: I just got up on the desk and took it down. [Trevor chuckles]
Trevor Chaplin: As my mother used to say, no noose is good noose.
Jill Swinburne: 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: Ooh, that's awful.
Trevor Chaplin: I'm just making a rational analysis of the situation.
Jill Swinburne: I think it's the same sort of dead cat as they use in that. [Jill looks at Trevor's dinner; Trevor pushes his plate away in revulsion]
Jill Swinburne: I think somebody is trying to frighten us. Successfully.
Trevor Chaplin: Mmm-hmm!
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 cuddle tonight.
Trevor Chaplin: Me too.
Jill Swinburne: See Mrs Swinburne in her classroom after school.
Trevor Chaplin: You what? I'm not going in *her* classroom - it's full of dead cats!
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Movie: The Beiderbecke Affair