Time Is My Enemy (1954)

Renée Asherson: Barbara Everton

Quotes 

• Martin Radley : I've decided to leave England, Barbara, and incidentally to leave you in peace for the rest of your life.

  Barbara Everton : Well I wish you had done so without telling me that you were alive.

  Martin Radley : No doubt, but I'm afraid that was impossible. I'm broke, my dear, and air passages are strictly cash. I need £500.

  Barbara Everton : I haven't a penny.

  [Martin looks around Barbara's opulent drawing room] 

  Martin Radley : You disguise the fact admirably.

• [Barbara arrives home to find her aunt waiting in the drawing room] 

  Barbara Everton : Aunt Laura! I was *so* pleased to get your wire. What brings you to London after all these years?

  Aunt Laura : Your uncle's going to be hung.

  [Barbara is stunned, thinking at first of the execution meaning of "hung"] 

  Barbara Everton : What?

  Aunt Laura : It's that water-colour of Rosedale Abbey and I must say it's good.

  [the penny finally drops] 

  Barbara Everton : You mean he's going to be hung in the Royal Academy?