The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Face the Music (2022)

Louisa Jacobson: Marian Brook

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• Marian Brook : Of course we can't meet in a hotel. For coffee or anything else.

  Tom Raikes : You don't seem to me to be a person governed by petty rules.

  Marian Brook : Not governed, I hope. But I must live in the same world as everyone else.

• Tom Raikes : Is your aunt still being unreasonable?

  Marian Brook : Who said she was ever reasonable?

• Marian Brook : He proposed. I'm quite breathless.

  Peggy Scott : What did you answer?

  Marian Brook : Nothing. Nothing of any purpose.

  Peggy Scott : You didn't tell him no?

  Marian Brook : I didn't tell him anything.

  Peggy Scott : But you didn't tell him no.

• Tom Raikes : And if it's devotion you need to be sure of, then I can say, hand on heart, there is no man living who cares more for you than I. Let me spend what remains to me of life in the sole cause of making you happy.

  Marian Brook : Mr. Raikes, we've only met a handful of times.

  Tom Raikes : You see, for me, I knew at once. When you came to my office for help that time. I could have ask you then, but... now I'll keep on asking until you say no.

  Marian Brook : What if I say yes?

  Tom Raikes : Then I'll stop.

• Marian Brook : But what is the point of shutting out these men and their families when they could probably build an opera house that's 20 times better than the one we have now?

• Ada Brook : Oh, look. Miss Russell is going out.

  Marian Brook : With her wretched governess. How can she stand it?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I will not criticize Mrs. Russell for her only virtue. At least she keeps her daughter under control.

  Marian Brook : Under arrest, more like.

• Anne Morris : Mr. Morris tells me Mr. Russell has insulted him disgracefully.

  Marian Brook : What? Why?

  Anne Morris : Why? Because he is not a gentleman, my dear, as I keep telling you.

  Marian Brook : There may be another side to it.

  Aurora Fane : You are too reasonable to live.

• Tom Raikes : What a wonderful surprise.

  Marian Brook : Don't worry, I'm not staying.

  Tom Raikes : Then it's a little less wonderful.

• Marian Brook : Somewhere there's an open door. And you're going to walk through it.

• Marian Brook : It's from Mr. Raikes. He got the job he was here to interview for, so he's living in New York.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : And what is that to you?

  Marian Brook : You can't ask me to cut him dead.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : My dear, should you meet Mr. Raikes in the street, then of course not. But I suggest only that you do not seek him out. He is not fit to be one of your circle. He is not a suitable companion, that is all.

  Marian Brook : All? It seems like a great deal to me. I do not wish to marry Mr. Raikes.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Then we have no quarrel.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Anyway, Eckhard had no money, which did not endear him to Papa. No money and no prospects.

  Ada Brook : I'm afraid not.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I wonder what he wants now.

  Marian Brook : He's lonely. He's just arrived in the city, and he hopes to find some old friends.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : So all this time, he's dreamed of seeing Ada again?

  Ada Brook : There's no need to be unkind.

  Marian Brook : Maybe he has dreamed of seeing Aunt Ada. What's wrong with that?

• Peggy Scott : The worst part is, my father was right. Now he'll gloat and insist that I come and work for him.

  Marian Brook : But you have a job.

  Peggy Scott : It doesn't matter. His way and his word trumps anything I say or want to do, at least in his mind.

• Marian Brook : It seems mad to me not to take Mrs. Russell's money when she has so much of it to give.

  Ada Brook : Well...

  Marian Brook : Or Mrs. Chamberlain's, for that matter, whatever her past.

  Ada Brook : You may have a point when it comes to Mrs. Russell but not with Mrs. Chamberlain.

  Marian Brook : No? They say she's very rich, too, and that she has a real interest in charitable causes.

  Ada Brook : It may be so, but there are limits.