Girls' Dormitory (1936)

Simone Simon: Marie Claudel

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Stephen Dominick : Isn't it strange how professors can be so pitifully stupid? It's taken me all these weeks to find out that the only answer to the problem...is you.

  Marie Claudel : I could have told you that.

  [they kiss] 

• Dr. Stephen Dominick : Sit down. I'm going to dictate something to you. 'My one and only love,'

  Marie Claudel : Oh, please.

  Dr. Stephen Dominick : Write. 'I can think of nothing but that beautiful moment when you held me in your arms.' I order you to write, Marie.

  Marie Claudel : [on the verge of tears]  Oh, I can't! Oh, please don't make me.

  Dr. Stephen Dominick : Then you did write this.

  Marie Claudel : Yes. Oh, I'm so ashamed.

  Dr. Stephen Dominick : How could it have happened?

  Marie Claudel : Surely you don't believe that anything like that really happened!

  Dr. Stephen Dominick : Then why did you write this?

  Marie Claudel : Well, it isn't a real letter.

  Dr. Stephen Dominick : What is it, then?

  Marie Claudel : Oh, how can I explain it to you... Well, here, inside these walls, I'm still a schoolgirl, but the moment I step outside, I feel life around me, I'm with the world. I feel like other people, dream like other people. Then I am not a schoolgirl, I'm a human being.

  Dr. Stephen Dominick : But this-this isn't something out of your imagination, it's-its real.

  Marie Claudel : Well, the letter is real, but what it says is not. The only true thing about it is that I am in love.

  Dr. Stephen Dominick : Yes?

  Marie Claudel : Well, in my dreams, I have been in the embrace of the man I love, yes, that is truth, but what you accuse me of, I'm not guilty.