The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010 TV Movie)

Anna Madeley: Mariana

Quotes 

• [Mrs Priestley has introduced Anne to Charles Lawton, an elderly, obese widower. Anne and Mariana are not impressed with him] 

  Mariana Belcombe : [ironically]  Such a fine figure of a gentleman, Mr Lawton.

  Anne Lister : I wonder where Mrs Priestley dug him up?

  Mariana Belcombe : He's an old friend of my father's. Apparently he has six thousand a year.

  Anne Lister : Ah. So it's you and your sisters who are being paraded. And do we know *how* his wife died?

  Mariana Belcombe : Perhaps he squashed her to death.

  Mariana Belcombe , Anne Lister : [giggle] 

• Mariana Belcombe : [voice over for letter to Anne Lister]  I realize any obligation you had to me was canceled by my marriage. But if you can find your way to Manchester on the 18th of November, I shall be there unaccompanied at the Albion Hotel en route from York.

• Mariana Belcombe : You cannot live without me.

  Anne Lister : Oh, but I do. And I cannot bear it any longer.