Nola Rice: Men think I may be something special.
Chris Wilton: Are you?
Nola Rice: No one's ever asked for their money back.
Nola Rice: You're going to do very well for yourself. Unless you blow it.
Chris Wilton: And how am I going to blow it?
Nola Rice: By making a pass at me.
Answer: Chris came from a lower-class Irish background. My take is, he was an ambitious social climber and minimised his natural Irish accent for a more gentile one to fit in with the English upper-classes that he was mingling with and eventually married into.
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