Mrs Parker: It's about the flower arranging committee.
Gloria: Oh, uhm, well, you'll have to talk to him, not to me.
Mrs Parker: Cynthia Martin has been doing her level best to undermine my leadership. I believe she's planning a coup.
Gloria: A coup?
Mrs Parker: Behind my back, yes! If you don't mind, I just need to sit. Behind my back and, and behind the Reverend's back as well. It's a disgrace. I would even go as far as saying, it is amoral. And knowing what I know now, I don't see how I can keep quiet.
Holly: Jesus Christ, I knew it. She knows!
Mrs Parker: And when the Reverend finds out, he will be mortified, I can assure you. I'm going to tell him, Mrs Goodfellow.
Holly: Grace. Grace, no.
Mrs Parker: No matter how much damage is done, he must be told.
Gloria: Well, I'm sure Walter will have a quiet word with Cynthia Martin, and it will be all sorted out.
Mrs Parker: But it's not just Mrs Martin. That’s the peers. They've all got their sordid little agendas. In sixty years, Mrs. Goodfellow, I have never known anything like it. And in my condition, too. It's really affecting my heart, you know? I really do wish it didn't have to come to this, but it does. Your husband must be told.
Grace: That's quite enough, Mrs Parker. Out of the way, please dear.
Gloria: What are you doing?
Grace: I will not have this family torn apart after all we've been through.
Gloria: What?
Holly: She knows, Mum! We have to. She was going to tell dad.
Gloria: About the committee, the flower arranging committee! This has nothing to do with anything else... Mrs Parker?
Grace: Oh, dear.
Gloria: Mrs Parker, can you hear me?
Holly: Shit, is she...
Grace: Yes, I believe she is.
Holly: Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.
Grace: She said herself she had a dickey heart.
Gloria: I think you might have a dickey heart, if someone came at you with a frying pan.
Grace: Well, it was a simple misunderstanding, it could happen to anybody.
Gloria: This cannot go on, Mother! I’ve had it enough.
Grace: I understand you're upset.
妙語(yǔ)佳句，活學(xué)活用
1. do one's level best
這個(gè)片語(yǔ)乍一看有些陌生，但其實(shí)它和do one's best 的意思是一樣的，也可以寫成是do one's damnedest，意思就是“perform as well as one can, do the utmost possible 盡全力”，例如：She did her level best to pass the course. 她盡全力通過了考試。
2. behind one's back
這個(gè)片語(yǔ)和中文“背著某人（做某事）”在表現(xiàn)形式上很有些異曲同工之妙，意思就是“out of one's presence or without someone's knowledge”，例如：Joan has a nasty way of maligning her friends behind their backs. 瓊在背后惡意中傷她的朋友們。
3. go as far as to
也寫作go so far as to，意思是“proceed to the point of doing something 到……程度”，例如： I wouldn't go so far as to call him incompetent, but he does need supervision.我還不至于說(shuō)他無(wú)能，但他確實(shí)需要監(jiān)督。
