Betrayal quotes

Question 1

R - you don’t

Answer 1

“You don’t actually want a woman within a mile of the place”

Question 2

J - about his kids

Answer 2

(about Sam) “Does a lot of running. He’s a long distance runner. He wants to be a zoologist” …
(about Sarah) “She’s ten.”

Question 3

E/R - what

Answer 3

“What about the kids?”
“I don’t think he mentioned them.”

Question 4

J - i have

Answer 4

“I have a home. With curtains, et cetera. And children.

Question 5

E - sam

Answer 5

“Sam must be … tall”

Question 6

E - charlotte

Answer 6

‘I’m picking Charlotte up from school. I’m taking her shopping’

Question 7

R - shes just

Answer 7

‘She’s just putting Ned to bed’

Question 8

J - when he finds out E is pregnant

Answer 8

“very happy for you”

Question 9

R - we wouldn’t

Answer 9

“We wouldn’t actually want a woman around, would we Jerry?”

Question 10

R - i just

Answer 10

“I just felt like giving her a good bashing. The old itch…you understand.”

Question 11

J - you’re not

Answer 11

“you’re not free in the afternoons…how can we meet” (he goes to America)

Question 12

E - i c

Answer 12

“I cook and slave for you.”

Question 13

Stage direction - setting 1968

Answer 13

The room is dimly let. Jerry is sitting in the shadows.

Question 14

Stage direction - E/R

Answer 14

Emma cries quietly. Robert holds her

Question 15

J - I should have

Answer 15

“I should have blackened you, in your white wedding dress, blackened you in your bridal dress, before ushering you into your wedding, as your best man”

Question 16

Keychain

Answer 16

E “struggles” to take key off ring. Has to get J to do it - even in position of power she is reliant on him to a point

Question 17

E - about the gallery

Answer 17

‘I like it. I want to do it.’

Question 18

E - i don’t quite

Answer 18

“I don’t quite know what we’re doing any more”

Question 19

E - I think

Answer 19

“i think we’ve made absolutely the right decision”

Question 20

Reverse chronology

Answer 20

E holds power in scene 1 - 1977 - but not in scene 9 - 1968

Question 21

What is the last line in the play chronologically?

Answer 21

J - The Lake District

Question 22

R - i cant

Answer 22

“I can’t bear being back in London….on Torcello, when I walked about Torcello in the early morning, alone, I was happy, I wanted to stay there forever.”

Question 23

J - she (judith)

Answer 23

“She loves me…but I adore you”

Question 24

E/R - apology

Answer 24

E “I’m sorry”, R “Sorry?” . Silence

Question 25

E/J/E - on betrayal

Answer 25

E “He’s (R) Betrayed me for years”
J “But we betrayed him for years”
E “And he betrayed me for years.”

Question 26

R - on Jerry

Answer 26

“I’ve always liked him rather more than I’ve liked you. Maybe I should have had an affair with him myself”…. Silence….”Tell me, are you looking forward to our trip to Torcello?”

Question 27

J - we were

Answer 27

“we were brilliant. Nobody knew.”

Question 27

R - she told

Answer 27

“She told me about you and her four years ago”

Question 28

E - confession / R - reaction

Answer 28

E “we’re lovers”
R “Ah. Yes. I thought it might be something like that”

Question 29

J - on Judith

Answer 29

“She has an admirer…he takes her for drinks. It’s…irritating.”

Question 30

R/J/R - on torcello

Answer 30

R “I went for a trip to Torcello.. “I was quite alone.”
J “Where was Emma?”
R “I think asleep” (but he told her the boats were on strike lolz)

Question 31

J - confession

Answer 31

“I must tell you, I want to tell you, I have to tell you” tricolon

Question 32

J - you remember

Answer 32

“You remember the form. I ask about your husband, you ask about my wife”

Question 33

J - look

Answer 33

“look at the way you look at me”

Question 34

How many pauses in scene 1?

Answer 34

26

Question 35

R - Emma gave

Answer 35

“Emma gave a dissertation over the pudding about dishonesty”

Question 36

E/R - squash

Answer 36

E “can i watch?”
pause
R “what?”