3rd most-quoted character in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008): in 6 of its 20 quotes
Most scenes with: Guinevere Pettigrew (6)
Joe That scarf, if I may say, looks perfect on you.
Well, thank you. It was a present. You know, I think it's the most beautiful thing I've ever worn.
Joe The flatterer has been out-flattered.
Sorry?
Joe It's one of mine, the design. Last year, for Mimi Coture.
Joe You really didn't know? Well that is a compliment indeed, madam, thank you.
They don't remember the last one.
Joe No. No, they don't.
Joe Are you all right?
Yes. Well, to take another woman's escort.
Joe Blumfield You didn't take me. I took you. I'm sure Edythe can cope. What happened to that particularly beautiful scarf you were wearing at the fashion show?
What are you talking about?
Joe Despite your most elegant transformation, the body is still the same.
Mr. Blumfield!
Joe As are the eyes. Most fetching if I may say.
Joe I'm sorry; an occupational habit. A bad one. I have to remember you're not like these people.
Am I terribly old fashioned?
Joe Indeed you are. And all the better for it.
I don't think I can bear it again.
Joe Did you lose many?
Just one. You?
Joe Almost every school friend I had. One tries to forget.
If only one could.
Joe You know, I've distracted myself with ridiculous things; youth, parties, lingerie. I mean, I trained in socks for goodness sake.
Joe There's a great deal of engineering in a gentlemen's sock, I'll have you know. In the stitching of the heel. By comparison, designing a brassiere is a piece of cake. Not that there aren't compensations.
None of them over 20, I imagine.
Joe And all very easy on the eyes. But you know what? I'm done with it. I'm going back to gentlemen's hosiery. You know where you are with an honest pair of socks.
You certainly do.
Joe Am I right in thinking you're no longer employed, Miss Pettigrew?
Quite correct.
Joe So you're free?
Quite free. Might you be looking for a social secretary?
Joe No, absolutely not.
Oh...
Joe I'm looking for you. I've been looking for you all night, and I believe, all of my life. If you'll have me. [Guinevere is stunned into silence] A nod of the head will do me fine. [Guinevere nods] And I am, at a stroke, the happiest man in London.
Told you about Gerry, has she? Didn't take you long to move on, hmm Joe?
Joe Hello Edythe.
Did she also tell you that she hangs around the soup kitchen at the station? A tramp masquerading as some sort of social secretary, my God.
Joe No, actually, she didn't. Neither about that, nor about you and Gerry. But I'm grateful for the truth for a change.
