Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

John Penrose: Lionel

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• Louis Mazzini : May we proceed to the matter about which you wish to see me?

  Lionel : Right. Matter of some delicacy actually, old boy, but I said to myself, "Louie's a sport and a man of the world. Always been a sport".

  Louis Mazzini : [coldly]  Thank you.

  Lionel : Always admired the sporting way you took with Sibella marrying me and not you. Some fellows would have take it very differently, but "May the best man win", you said, and when I won, you behaved like a gentleman, as I recall you being keen on Sibella at one time. You and I are old friends. I ask you to help us.

  Louis Mazzini : [contemptuously]  Help you?

  Lionel : [drunkenly maudlin]  I told you some time back, business hasn't been going too well. Since then it's gone worse. I'm bankrupt! So I said to myself, "Why not talk to my old pal Louie Mazzini, who we used to have such jolly old times around the nursery fire, roasting chestnuts?"

  Louis Mazzini : [witheringly]  I'm afraid your memory is deceiving you. By no stretch of the imagination could you and I ever have been described as "pals". If I remember correctly, we detested each other cordially from the first day we met, with a detestation that increased with our years.

  Lionel : Always thought of you as a pal. Always have, that's why I said to myself...

  Louis Mazzini : [cutting him off]  It's only fair to warn you that any further expense of breath on the subject would be a waste.