Love Among the Ruins (1975 TV Movie)

Katharine Hepburn: Jessica Medlicott

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• Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones : And what is your age?

  Jessica Medlicott : [smiling, nervous and not speaking for several seconds] 

  Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones : Did you not hear the question that I asked?

  Jessica Medlicott : I heard your question. I could not believe that you asked it.

  Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones : Don't you want the jury to know how old you are?

  Jessica Medlicott : I cannot think that it is any of their business. I don't know their ages, why should they know mine?

  [continuing smiling while people in the courtroom chuckle] 

  The Judge : Silence!

  Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones : Ah, so you won't say in what year you were born then?

  Jessica Medlicott : I was born in the year of my birth.

  Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones : I assure you, it's quite customary to tell one's age in the witness box.

  Jessica Medlicott : And I assure you it is quite incompatable with the civilized behavoir. No gentleman would dream about insisting upon it.

  Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones : I'm sure my learned opponent would agree with you whole-heartedly. How he would like us to believe that all suck things such as birth certificates, eh, should be ignored or even surpressed.

  Jessica Medlicott : Neither in my case. Merely lost.

  Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones : How lost? In a fire?

  Jessica Medlicott : In a fire, exactly.

  Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones : And what fire was that, Mrs. Medicott?

  Jessica Medlicott : Any fire you like.