Since You Went Away (1944)

Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: [starts to rain and Jane and Bill take refuge in an old barn] Oh boy, we certainly made it just in time! Ho, Ho!
Jane Deborah Hilton: How will we get home if this keeps up? It must be almost seven o'clock.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: [checks his watch] Well, what do you know? You guessed it! It's just exactly 18 minutes to seven.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Only five hours more.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Oh, I almost forgot for a little while.
Jane Deborah Hilton: I didn't forget. Not for a minute. I've thought about it all day long.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Well, gee, I never thought anybody would care about me... anybody like you.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Bill.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Oh, Jane! I don't want to leave you!
Jane Deborah Hilton: It won't be for long, darling.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: It might be for months, or for years, maybe.
Jane Deborah Hilton: It doesn't matter. I'll be thinking about you all the time. Someday the war will be over, and then we can be ...
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Then we can be married, Jane?

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Colonel William G. Smollett: Good morning. Mrs. Hilton, I presume?
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Yes.
Colonel William G. Smollett: May I be permitted to observe that this is the first house I've found in this godforsaken community that doesn't smell of cabbage.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Well, it does sometimes.
Colonel William G. Smollett: I was given to understand at the office of the Purchasing Division, to which I have the misfortune to be attached, that you had a room for rent.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Yes, but I specified an officer. You see, my husband -
Colonel William G. Smollett: My name is Smollett, William G., Colonel, United States Army, retired. Retired, I might add, by virtue of certain fatuous opinions held in the War Department which judge a man's usefulness neither by his experience nor his ability, but by the number of years since he was weaned.
Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: [dog growls and barks] Soda. Soda!
Colonel William G. Smollett: There was nothing in the information I was furnished, madam, which indicated that you had children and domestic pets.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Well, I'm sorry, but they go with the house.
Colonel William G. Smollett: We won't discuss it. With your permission, madam, may we dispense with further conversation? I should like to inspect the room.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Certainly. Just follow me. I do hope you'll forgive me if I've been long-winded.
Colonel William G. Smollett: Not at all, madam. Through a full, and somewhat protracted existence, I have learned to accept the natural tendency of all women to be garrulous.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: You're very tolerant, Colonel.

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Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: Class president! Class pin-up girl. I heard all about how she got elected.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Oh, that's not fair, Brig. Becky's a very bright girl.
Mrs. Emily Hawkins: She most certainly is. I would say that Becky's one of the brightest, and one of the most attractive girls in this town.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Oh, I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
Fidelia: No, ma'am!

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Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker play young lovers. In real life, they were at the end of a failed marriage and divorced shortly after. She later married David O. Selznick, the producer of this film.
This came about because David O. Selznick wanted to make a film that showed his support for the war effort. He deliberately did not want to make a traditional war movie.
The original novel by Margaret Buell Wilder is in epistolary form - i.e., it consists of a series of letters that she wrote to her husband while he was away at war.
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