The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)

Lil Dagover: Lottie Corlaix

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• Lottie Corlaix : I might just as well be married to the lighthouse out there.

• Lottie Corlaix : Robert, please, please... don't take it so hard. It was NOT your fault!

  Captain Corlaix : Everybody thinks it was. They're all demanding my conviction. I'm to be brought to the bar like a criminal in the dock.

  Lottie Corlaix : But they can't...

  Captain Corlaix : Execute me? No. That would be merciful. But they *can* humiliate me before the whole world. Take everything from me.

  Lottie Corlaix : Everything, Robert?

  Captain Corlaix : Oh, of course not, my dear. I still have you. But those men out there, lying side by side. Men - friends I knew. Comrades. Buried in a common grave because not enough of each one was found for identification.

  Lottie Corlaix : Don't torture yourself!

  Captain Corlaix : 361 seamen and commissioned officers who will never feel the deck beneath their feet again.

  Lottie Corlaix : But it was not your fault!

  Captain Corlaix : Who can tell? I let an enemy ship come close enough to sink us.