ABC Stage 67 (TV Series)
Evening Primrose (1966)
Charmian Carr: Ella Harkins
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Quotes
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Mrs. Monday : Tell me, Harkins, are you happy here?
Ella Harkins : No, madam, I'm not happy here.
Mrs. Monday : But you stay on?
Ella Harkins : Yes, madam, I stay on.
Mrs. Monday : Why do you?
Ella Harkins : I'm so frightened of the dark men!
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Ella Harkins : They don't feed me. When they're through, I get what's left. They're skinny but they eat like elephants. I saw an elephant once when I was little and I know what elephants can eat!
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Charles Snell : Harkins, who are these dark men?
Ella Harkins : There's a famous mortuary in Manhattan. Journey's End, I think it's called.
Charles Snell : Yeah, I've heard of it.
Ella Harkins : Well, people live there, just like here.
Charles Snell : Live in a mortuary? Well, how can they? What... What do they live on?
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Charles Snell : Were you born here?
Ella Harkins : No, I came when I was six.
Charles Snell : That's amazing. You renounced the world when you were six!
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Charles Snell : You haven't seen the sun for 13 years?
Ella Harkins : Oh, don't pity me. I have my memories.
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Ella Harkins : I can't read or write, I don't know what the world is...
Charles Snell : What? You can't read or write?
Ella Harkins : I never finished kindergarten.
Charles Snell : Oh, that's wonderful! I'll teach you, like Pygmalion!
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Ella Harkins : I don't know anything. I've never spoken to a man before who wasn't old. I've never touched a face that wasn't wrinkled.
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Ella Harkins : We don't dare see each other again, it's too dangerous. They're watching us!
Charles Snell : I don't see anybody.
Ella Harkins : You never can. They watch in secret ways!