D'AGOSTINO: Mrs Clifton---Count Almásy.
KATHARINE (smiling, offering her hand): Hello. Geoffrey gave me your monograph when I was reading up on the desert. Very impressive.
ALMÁSY(stiff): Thank you.
KATHARINE: I wanted to meet a man who could write such a long paper with so few adjectives.
ALMÁSY: A thing is still a thing no matter what you place in front of it. Big car, slow car, chauffeur-driven car, still a car.
CLIFTON (joining them and joining in) : A broken car?
ALMÁSY:
Still a car.
CLIFTON (hands them champagne): Not much use, though.
KATHARINE: Love? Romantic love, platonic love, filial love---? Quite different things, surely?
CLIFTON (hugging Katharine): Uxoriousness---that's my favorite kind of love. Excessive love of one's wife.
ALMÁSY (a dry smile): Now there you have me.