The Ghoul (1933)

Kathleen Harrison: Kaney

Quotes 

• Kaney : That's the last time I'll ever try to make coffee in a strange house!

• Nigel Hartley : I'm sorry there should be this sort of atmosphere. After all, we're only ships that pass in the night.

  Broughton : Hmmm. Do you want a drink, or will you pass now?

  Aga Ben Dragore : [as the romantic Kaney is making tea for the household]  Six cups? That's just... just four too many.

  [Grabbing her hand] 

  Aga Ben Dragore : Eh?

  Kaney : Tell me about Egypt. Have you ever seen a shiek?

  Aga Ben Dragore : [Imperiously folding his arms a la Valentino]  I am one!

  Kaney : [Shocked]  What?

• Aga Ben Dragore : Now I will show you how we make coffee in the desert... by the native stars.

  Kaney : You don't make it yourself, do you?

  Aga Ben Dragore : No, of course not! A Circassian slave, lovely and thin, cooks it for us, kneeling. And if it is not to our liking...

  Kaney : I know! She is stripped to the waist and lashed for miles across the Sahara.

  Aga Ben Dragore : Where she is finally eaten by locusts. And rightly. Now; take this canister and do exactly as I tell you.

  Kaney : And if I fail?

  Aga Ben Dragore : The Yorkshire moors are just behind us!

• Kaney : Tell me about Egypt. Have you ever seen a sheikh?

  Aga Ben Dragore : I am one.

  Kaney : What?

  [drops knife; he hands it back] 

  Kaney : Thank you. Then how should I address you? Oh - I'm cutting sandwiches for a sheikh! I don't feel quite well.

  Aga Ben Dragore : Oh, don't be alarmed. We're not as uncivilised as people think.

  Kaney : Oh, don't say that! Do you ride a white stallion?

  Aga Ben Dragore : Sometimes.

  Kaney : Down the path of the moon! The noble animal plunging and frothing at the nostrils till it founders at your feet, faithful unto death!

• Nigel Hartley : Not a very courageous person, our foreign friend.

  Kaney : You think he's run away? Absurd! I'd like to see you riding your bicycle with a Circassian slave, lovely as sin, across the handlebars!