Goode Performance

'What has brought you home so early? I thought you were going to tea with that friend of Mr Bell's; that Mr Hale.'

'So I am, mother; I am come home to dress!'

'Dress! humph! When I was a girl, young men were satisfied with dressing once in a day. Why should you dress to go and take a cup of tea with an old parson?'

'Mr Hale is a gentleman, and his wife and daughter are ladies.'

[.....] 'Take care you don't get caught by a penniless girl, John.'

'I am not easily caught, mother, as I think you know. But I must not have Miss Hale spoken of in that way, which, you know, is offensive to me. I never was aware of any young lady trying to catch me yet, nor do I believe that any one has ever given themselves that useless trouble.

"Makes me smile, the way we drink to the future, whatever it may bring."

Costume appreciation series: Mamma Mia! (2008) dir Phyllida Lloyd