The Go-Between (1971)

Edward Fox: Hugh Trimingham

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• Hugh Trimingham : Does Marian call you Leo?

  Leo Colston : Oh, yes. I think she's ripping! I'd do anything for her.

  Hugh Trimingham : What would you do?

  Leo Colston : Oh, anything. Anything.

  Hugh Trimingham : Would you like to take her a message for me?

• Hugh Trimingham : Where were you off to?

  Leo Colston : Nowhere.

  Hugh Trimingham : Ah, nowhere. Well, would you like to go somewhere?

  Leo Colston : Yes, where?

  Hugh Trimingham : It's up to you.

• Hugh Trimingham : [Leo approaches]  Hello. There's Mercury.

  Marian Maudsley - Lady Trimingham : Why do you call him Mercury?

  Hugh Trimingham : 'Cause he takes messages. You took a message for me, didn't you, old chap? To this young lady here on the way from church. You didn't fetch a very warm response. Do you know who Mercury was?

  Leo Colston : Mercury - is the smallest of the planets.

  Hugh Trimingham : Ah, but before that he was the messenger of the gods. He went to and fro between them.

• Hugh Trimingham : Ted Burgess is quite a decent fellow. But wild.

  Leo Colston : Wild? Do you mean he's dangerous?

  Hugh Trimingham : Well, he's not dangerous to you or to me. He's a bit of a ladykiller, that's all.

  Leo Colston : A ladykiller?

• Hugh Trimingham : Nothing is ever a lady's fault.