- Catherine Winslow: You still haven't answered my question, Sir Robert.
- Sir Robert Morton: Very well then, if you must have it. I wept today because right had been done.
- Catherine Winslow: Not justice?
- Sir Robert Morton: No, not justice - right. It's easy to do justice. Very hard to do right. But right has been done.
- Sir Robert Morton: I wept today because right had been done.
- Catherine Winslow: Not justice?
- Sir Robert Morton: No, not justice, right. It's easy to do justice, very hard to do right.
- Sir Robert Morton: The House of Commons is a peculiarly trying place you know - far too little ventilation and far too much hot air.
- Arthur Winslow: Well, now, I understand that you wish to marry my daughter.
- John Watherstone: Yes, sir. Of course, sir.
- Arthur Winslow: Why of course? There are plenty of people about who don't want to marry her. Oh, we'll not quibble about that. I think we'll take the romantic role of the project for granted.
- Catherine Winslow: I was in court yesterday during your cross-examination of Lynn Rogers.
- Sir Robert Morton: Oh, yes?
- Catherine Winslow: It was masterly.
- Sir Robert Morton: Thank you.
- Catherine Winslow: The verdict must have pleased you enormously.
- Sir Robert Morton: Three years hard labor.
- Catherine Winslow: Yes. Many believe him to be innocent, you know.
- Sir Robert Morton: So I believe. As it happens, however, he was guilty.
- Desmond Curry: A subject can sue the king by petition of right. And it's the custom of the attorney general on behalf of the king, to endorse the petition and allow the case to come to court.
- Sir Robert Morton: It is interesting to note that the exact words he uses on such occasions are, "Let right be done."
- Arthur Winslow: Let right be done. I like that phrase.
- Sir Robert Morton: It has a certain ring about it, hasn't it? Let right be done.
- Grace Winslow: Things we took for granted a year ago and now don't seem to matter anymore.
- Arthur Winslow: Such as?
- Grace Winslow: Such as peace and quiet, and an ordinary respectable life. Some sort of future for us and our children. A happy home, Arthur. A happy home. But you've thrown that all overboard. I can only pray to God that you know what you're doing.
- Arthur Winslow: I know exactly what I'm doing, Grace. I'm going to publish my son's innocence before the world.
- Grace Winslow: Oh, talk about sacrificing everything for him. But when he's grown up, he won't thank you or it, Arthur. Even though you've given your life to... publish his innocence, as you call it. Yes, Arthur, your life... You know as well as any of the doctors what's really the matter with you. You're destroying yourself, Arthur. And me... and your family. And for what, I'd like to know. For what, Arthur?
- Arthur Winslow: For justice, Grace.
- Grace Winslow: You sure it isn't just plain pride and self-importance and sheer brute stubbornness?
- Dickie Winslow: Trouble between you and John?
- Catherine Winslow: Oh, not really.
- Dickie Winslow: I say, You're not going to be left on the altar rail or something, are you?
- Catherine Winslow: I'll get him across the altar rail if I have to drag him there.
- Dickie Winslow: Well, do you think you might have to?
- Catherine Winslow: Quite frankly, yes.
- Dickie Winslow: Oh, it's the case, I suppose?
- Catherine Winslow: In a way.
- Grace Winslow: Well, as a matter of fact, I was looking for something new to say.
- Arthur Winslow: No one, with the possible exception of Bernard Shaw, could possibly find anything new to say about an engaged couple.
- Sir Robert Morton: That's a most charming hat, Miss Winslow.
- Catherine Winslow: I'm glad you like it.
- Sir Robert Morton: It seems decidedly wrong to me that a lady of your political persuasion should be allowed to adorn herself with such a truly feminine allurement. It's awful like trying to have the best of both worlds.
- Catherine Winslow: Yes, but then I'm not a militant. I don't go about throwing bricks in shop windows and making speeches from soap boxes.
- Sir Robert Morton: I'm very glad to hear it. Both of those activities would be highly unsuitable in that hat.
- Catherine Winslow: Well, I hope that what my father has just said won't prevent you from making your speech, Sir Robert. After all, the principle is still involved.
- Sir Robert Morton: What principle?
- Catherine Winslow: The principle of right and wrong.
- Sir Robert Morton: Oh. Quite. Quite.
- John Watherstone: I must say, with a European war blowing up, a coal strike on, and a fair chance of civil war in Ireland, it does seem a bit odd that the House of Commons should have to take a whole day to discuss your young brother and his... postal order.
- Catherine Winslow: Well, all I can say, John, is if the day ever comes that the Hose of Commons has so much on its mind that it can't find time to discuss a Ronnie Winslow and his... postal order, well, this country will be in a far poorer place than it is today.
- John Watherstone: Well, I know it's awfully important for you to establish Ronnie's innocence...
- Catherine Winslow: Oh, that's not important to me, John.
- John Watherstone: What?
- Catherine Winslow: That's what's important to my father, it's not to me. All I care about is that people should know that a government department has ignored a fundamental human right, and they should be forced to acknowledge it. That's all that's important to me. But it is... terribly important.
- Arthur Winslow: Grace, dear, your son is facing charges of theft and forgery.
- Grace Winslow: It's so difficult. I simply can't be seen in the same old hat, day after day.
- Arthur Winslow: Brute stubbornness and a selfish refusal to admit defeat - that's what you mother says our natures are.
- Catherine Winslow: Well, perhaps she's right. Perhaps that's all we've been. But brute stubbornness may not be such a bad quality in the face of injustice.
- Arthur Winslow: I'm afraid, Cate, this must be the end.
- Catherine Winslow: No, father, we've got to go on.
- Arthur Winslow: It's not just this letter, Cate. I can't go on sacrificing other people's happiness.
- Arthur Winslow: Sir Robert, whatever the result of the debate may be, I must ask you to drop the case.
- Sir Robert Morton: What has happened?
- Arthur Winslow: I made many sacrifices for it. Some of them I had no right to make, but nevertheless, I made them. There's a limit, and I've reached it.
- Sir Robert Morton: What has happened?
- Arthur Winslow: I'm sorry, Sir Robert. More sorry than you, perhaps, but the Winslow case is closed.
- Sir Robert Morton: Balderdash!
- Catherine Winslow: My father doesn't mean what he's been saying, Sir Robert. I think I should tell you that he had a letter...
- Arthur Winslow: No, Catherine.
- Catherine Winslow: ...from the father of the man that I'm engaged to, saying that if we go on with the case, he will use every influence he has to prevent this son from marrying me.
- Sir Robert Morton: I see. An ultimatum.
- Catherine Winslow: Yes, but a pointless one.
- Sir Robert Morton: He has no influence over his son?
- Catherine Winslow: Well of course, but John's of age and his own master.
- Sir Robert Morton: And, at his inquiry, did Ronald Winslow have anyone to defend him?
- Captain Flower: Oh, that was different.
- Sir Robert Morton: Oh, yes, of course it was different. You were a man of 22 but he was a child of 13. Thank you captain, that is all.
- Lord Chief Justice: Sir Robert, that observation was certainly uncalled for. You are prejudicing your case by these interruptions.
- Sir Robert Morton: Oh? Do you really think so, my Lord? As your lordship pleases.
- Sir Robert Morton: If I know the attorney general at all, he will fully tell the jury that a verdict for Ronnie will simultaneously cause mutiny in the Royal Navy and triumphant jubilation in Berlin.
- Catherine Winslow: I've been a fool, father.
- Arthur Winslow: Have you, my dear?
- Catherine Winslow: An utter fool.
- Arthur Winslow: In the absence of further information, I can only repeat, 'Have you my dear?"
- Catherine Winslow: Well, there can be no further information. I'm under a pledge of secrecy.
- Catherine Winslow: Desmond's asked me to marry him.
- Arthur Winslow: I trust the folly you were referring to wasn't your acceptance of him.
- Grace Winslow: Come on, Dickie. When you get to the front door, put your head down like me and charge through them all.
- [Reporters]
- Grace Winslow: I always shout, "I'm the maid and I don't know nothin'."
- Sir Robert Morton: I thought you might like to hear the exact words of the attorney general's statement. So, I jotted them down for you, sir. "I say now, on behalf of the admiralty, that I accept the declaration of Ronald Arthur Winslow, that he did not write the name on the postal order, that he did not take it, and that he did not cash it. And that subsequently, he was entirely innocent of the charge which was brought against him two years ago. I make that statement without any reservation or any description, intending it to be a complete acceptance of the boy's statement."
- Arthur Winslow: I must thank you, Sir Robert, for all that you've done for us. I hope you don't mind if I confess to a certain feeling of relief that after today, you shall hear no more of the Winslow boy.
- Sir Robert Morton: Oh? Do you really think so?
- Sir Robert Morton: Nevertheless, I have every intention of applying a slight but decisive spur to the first lord's posterior in the House of Commons.
- Arthur Winslow: Hmmm. What shall I say?
- Sir Robert Morton: Why I hardly think it matters, that whatever you say will have very little bearing on what they write.
- Catherine Winslow: Sir Robert, I have a confession and an apology to make to you.
- Sir Robert Morton: Dear lady, I'm sure that one is rash and the other is superfluous. I'd far rather hear neither.
- Catherine Winslow: I'm afraid you must. You see, it's a better penance for me to say it then to write it. I have entirely misjudged your attitude in this case.
- Sir Robert Morton: Still pursuing your feministic activities, miss Winslow?
- Catherine Winslow: Oh yes.
- Sir Robert Morton: Pity. It's a lost cause.
- Catherine Winslow: How little you know women, Sir Robert.
- Catherine Winslow: Goodbye. I doubt if we should meet again.
- Sir Robert Morton: Oh, do you really think so? How little you know men, Miss Winslow.
- Bank Manager: My dear chap, take the advice of an old friend. Think twice before you waste another penny.
- Arthur Winslow: Now about your own income. Are you able to live on it?
- John Watherstone: No sir, I'm in the regular army.
- Grace Winslow: [to John, after the engagement is announced] May I kiss you? After all I'm practically your mother now.
- Arthur Winslow: By the same token, I'm practically your father but if you'll forgive me...
- Violet - the maid: You rang sir?
- Arthur Winslow: Yes Violet. My compliments to Mr Dickie, and if he doesn't stop that cacophonous hullabaloo at once, I'll throw him and his infernal machine into the street.
- Violet - the maid: Yes sir. What was that word again, cack something?
- Arthur Winslow: Never mind, never mind, say what you like only stop him.
- Violet - the maid: Well, I'll do my best, sir. Excuse me madam.
- Grace Winslow: Where are you going Violet?
- Violet - the maid: I've got to stop Mr Dickie's cacka cough something.
- Dickie Winslow: My gosh, I could just about murder that silly little brother of mine. What's he want to go about pinching postal orders for? And why the dickens does he have to get himself nabbed doing it?
- Catherine Winslow: Goodnight Dickie.
- Dickie Winslow: Silly little blighter.