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简和汤姆的恋爱,遭到了汤姆舅舅的反对,于是他们决定私奔。在离家的路上,简不小心看到了汤姆口袋里的家书,才知道汤姆家境困难,全靠舅舅给他的补助维生,而汤姆的放荡,其实是种掩饰。百感交集的简决定放弃私奔的打算...
Jane: How many brothers and sisters do you have in Limerick, Tom?
Tom: Enough. Why?
Jane: What are the names of your brothers and sisters?
Tom: They...
Jane: On whom do they depend? Your reputation is destroyed. Your profligacy is a beautiful sham.
Tom: I can earn money.
Jane: It will not be enough.
Tom: I will rise.
Jane: With a High Court Judge as your enemy? And a penniless wife? God knows how many mouths depending on you? My sweet, sweet friend, you will sink, and we will all sink with you.
Tom: I will...
Driver: Hampshire Flyer. Hampshire Flyer's leaving in five minutes.
Tom: No! No, Jane. I will never give you up.
Jane: Tom...
Tom: Don't speak or think. Just love me. Do you love me?
Jane: Yes. But if our love destroys your family, it will destroy itself.
Tom: No.
Jane: Yes. In a long, slow degradation of guilt and regret and blame.
Tom: That is nonsense.
Jane: Truth. Made from contradiction. But it must come with a smile. Or else I shall count it as false and we shall have had no love at all.
Tom: Please.
Jane: Goodbye.