Solomon Isaacs
If you were wondering...from Noel Coward's Private Lives, Act I:
AMANDA: I won't move from here unless we have a compact, a sacred, sacred compact never to quarrel again.
ELYOT: Easy to make but difficult to keep.
AMANDA: No, no, it's the bickering that always starts it. The moment we notice we're bickering, either of us, we must promise on our honor to stop dead. We'll invent some phrase or catchword, which when either of us says it, automatically cuts off all conversation for at least five minutes.
ELYOT: Two minutes dear, with an option of renewal.
AMANDA: Very well, what shall it be?
ELYOT [hurriedly]: Solomon Isaacs.
AMANDA: All right, that'll do.
ELYOT: Come on, come on.
AMANDA: What shall we do if we meet either of them on the way downstairs?
ELYOT: Run like stags.
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AMANDA: I won't move from here unless we have a compact, a sacred, sacred compact never to quarrel again.
ELYOT: Easy to make but difficult to keep.
AMANDA: No, no, it's the bickering that always starts it. The moment we notice we're bickering, either of us, we must promise on our honor to stop dead. We'll invent some phrase or catchword, which when either of us says it, automatically cuts off all conversation for at least five minutes.
ELYOT: Two minutes dear, with an option of renewal.
AMANDA: Very well, what shall it be?
ELYOT [hurriedly]: Solomon Isaacs.
AMANDA: All right, that'll do.
ELYOT: Come on, come on.
AMANDA: What shall we do if we meet either of them on the way downstairs?
ELYOT: Run like stags.
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