Primeiras Impressões I
Mr. Thornton: I believe your daughter and I have already met.
Mr. Hale: Ah! Now, Mr. Thornton can’t decide between Aristotle and Plato. I suggest we start with Plato and then move on. What do you think?
Mr. Thornton: I’m afraid Miss Hale and I met under less than pleasant circumstances. I had to dismiss a worker for smoking in the sorting room.
Margaret: I saw you beat a defenseless man who was not your equal!
Mr. Hale: Margaret!
Mr. Thornton: No, she’s right. I was angry. I have a temper. Fire is the greatest danger in my mill—I have to be strict.
Margaret: No gentleman uses fists on such a pathetic creature, or shout at children!
Mr. Thornton: I daresay a gentleman has not had to see three hundred corpses laid out on a Yorkshire hillside as I did last May! Many of them were children, and that was an accidental flame. The whole mill destroyed in twenty minutes.
North & South (2004 - BBC)