The Lash (1930)

Robert Edeson: Don Mariana Delfina

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• Dona Dolores Delfino : Do you think Pancho will have changed? I mean, do you think he will be happy here?

  Don Mariana Delfina : It's his home.

  Dona Dolores Delfino : I know, but, he has had four years in Mexico City and I've heard its a *very* gay place.

• Don Mariana Delfina : Juan did not beat his wife and he sent her away with my permission. She is totally unmoral and has listened too often to the flattery of - you will pardon me - of your American soldiers.

  Judge Travers : Well, I don't look at it that way. I want to tell you they'll be no mistreating of women in this state. There are American laws made for that purpose and I'm here to see that they're enforced.

  Francisco Delfino 'Pancho' : Do I understand that you Americans consider yourselves competent to teach us how to treat women?

  Judge Travers : We do!

• Don Mariana Delfina : The new order of things is here. It will do no good to fight.