Mrs. Schuyler: Captain Lawrence just left. You got us in another jam.
Monica Dale: I have? How?
Mrs. Schuyler: Your conduct on your last leave.
Monica Dale: Oh, what's the matter with my conduct? Why can't I have a little fun?
Mrs. Schuyler: Fun? Huh! The other girls seem to manage.
Monica Dale: You wait until they've been up as long as I have.
Mrs. Schuyler: I understand all about that and I've been pretty lenient. Next time, it won't be up to me. Now, Captain Lawrence has agreed to pigeon-hole this complaint on one condition... .
Monica Dale: Yes?
Mrs. Schuyler: ...at its first reoccurrence of this sort of thing, the girl's gonna be sent back.
Monica Dale: Back to the Base? Oh, you'd never stand for that. Can't run the outfit without a top sergeant.
Mrs. Schuyler: Who's talking about "Base"? It's back to the States, Monica.
Monica Dale: The States? You mean they'd ship me out of here? Out of France?
Mrs. Schuyler: You wouldn't like that would you?
Monica Dale: Like it? I, I couldn't stand it. What would I do in the States?
Mrs. Schuyler: You'd better snap out of it then.
Monica Dale: Snap out of it, why? I do my job don't I?
Mrs. Schuyler: Yes, but you...
Monica Dale: You bet I do - like a man. Does Headquarters check up on every man in France that wants to live for a minute? No. It makes allowances for them. It knows it's war.
Mrs. Schuyler: There's nothing new about war, Monica. And women have to carry on.
Monica Dale: Women? Yes. Women! We're not women anymore. I'm not. You don't suppose I can go through it, living in mud, smelling the dead and still come out of it like I was? Betty, I kissed a man once. He was dying. He'd got in the way of a shell. I'll never forget the sight. Just a thing with two blind eyes. He was off his nut and thought I was his wife. I kissed him and heard the rattle. I went on my first bender after that. I got cock-eyed, for the first time.
Mrs. Schuyler: Aw, I know, Monica. You've had more than your share. But you've got to pull yourself together, Monica. Realise that this war isn't going to last forever.
Monica Dale: Oh, yes is it - for me. I couldn't stand peace now. That part of me is dead. That's why I can't go back to the States. I simply can't.
