The Pallisers1974

Gerard Maule:
[after telling Maule that she has rejected Fawn's marriage proposal] He's desperate for a wife. Other men ain't!

Adelaide Palliser:
Gerald Maule, you're so smug I could hit you.

Gerard Maule:
I wouldn't try it, Missy. You might get as good as you get.

Adelaide Palliser:
You ain't a gentleman, that's what!

Gerard Maule:
You just discovered that?

Adelaide Palliser:
You've no need to look so pleased with yourself.

Gerard Maule:
Oh, but I'm not. On the contrary Miss Palliser, I am so conscious of my defects I can never presume to offer myself as a husband, least of all to a decent girl like you.

Adelaide Palliser:
But that's just it. When I'm with you, I don't care a bit for being decent. I feel positively indecent, and I like it! Now do you understand?

Gerard Maule:
[laughs] Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear. Whatever shall we do with this? Whatever shall we do with you?