The Gilded Age (TV Series)
A Long Ladder (2022)
Denée Benton: Peggy Scott
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Quotes
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Peggy Scott : And you could be a bride, if you give Mr. Raikes an answer.
Marian Brook : I still can't believe he asked the question. Maybe he didn't. Maybe I was mistaken.
Peggy Scott : Do you hope you were mistaken?
Marian Brook : Not exactly.
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Peggy Scott : Well, why should I align myself with either party when I don't have the right to vote?
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Peggy Scott : A Mr. Fortune, the editor of "The New York Globe," is going to publish one of my stories-- "Alone in the City."
Marian Brook : What's it about?
Peggy Scott : A young colored woman living on the Upper East Side.
Agnes Van Rhijn : It's about you, in other words.
Peggy Scott : All writers write about themselves, at least at the start. But Mr. Fortune wants my next article to be more political.
Agnes Van Rhijn : Just make sure that if you do, I never find out.
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Peggy Scott : What are you doing here?
Marian Brook : I thought I'd surprise you.
Peggy Scott : You succeeded.
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Peggy Scott : What's in the bag?
Marian Brook : Oh, well, I... I wanted to bring something useful. But I'm not sure they will be very useful after all.
Dorothy Scott : Can't we see? If you've brought it all this way...
Peggy Scott : Old shoes?
Marian Brook : I thought...
Dorothy Scott : What did you think, Miss Brook? That we would need cast-off shoes?
Marian Brook : I'm so sorry. I...
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Peggy Scott : Because we're colored, we must be poor? I loaned you train fare!
Marian Brook : I made a stupid assumption.
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Marian Brook : My aunt lets you live at her house.
Peggy Scott : Lets me? I work there.
Marian Brook : I know...
Peggy Scott : No, you don't know anything... about me, about my life, about my situation. I live in a different country from the one you know.
Marian Brook : Look, I'm sorry.
Peggy Scott : Don't be sorry! Just stop thinking you're really my friend.