I'd be lost without her. A first-rate housekeeper is essential in a house like this where great affairs are decided between these walls.
15 seconds sound clip from the The Remains of the Day movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:06:24 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Oh, thank you very much, but it's very late and I have an early start. Good night.
- It was never the same after she left Stanton Lacey.
- I handed in my own notice 6 months later.
- A matter in which the Jews are far more sensitive than we are.
- But because I think the perception of two so fundamentally different natures reveals a real gulf.
- We have some refugee girls on the staff at the moment, I believe.
- We do, My Lord. Two housemaids, Elsa and Irma.
- You'll have to let them go, I'm afraid.
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