- Vincent Maran: Riley bankrolled you on the basis you was gonna marry a rich dame. So, what happens, we crossed the drink back and forth, forth and back and you haven't hit yet! I'm gettin' sick of the sea.
- Sylvia Rumley: Cowboys.
- Alison Kirbe: Yes. Can't you just see them? Strumming their banjos as they set off about their day's work. They ride out from the ranch house - tall in the saddle. Their eyes narrowed to slits as they pass the ornery cattle rustler without even speaking to him.
- Sylvia Rumley: Oh, it all sounds simply wonderful.
- Mrs. Milwright: Embarkation is always tiresome though. All these people going abroad for the first time. That's curious whipping up of an excitement that vulgar shouting goodbyes and crying. It's really a bore, don't you think?
- Alison Kirbe: I didn't notice, I was too busy shouting and crying.
- Beryl Robinson: Alison, how do you really feel?
- Alison Kirbe: Frankly?
- Beryl Robinson: Frankly.
- Alison Kirbe: Revoltingly happy!
- Alison Kirbe: Listen to this.
- [reads from a letter]
- Alison Kirbe: "Dear little girl, I was thinkin' of you this morning, little part."
- Sylvia Rumley: Part?
- Alison Kirbe: It means partner.
- Sylvia Rumley: Partner?
- Alison Kirbe: It means part-ner.
- Sylvia Rumley: But you're not his partner.
- Alison Kirbe: No, no, no, they don't mean partner the way *we* mean partner. They mean buddy.
- Sylvia Rumley: Buddy?
- Alison Kirbe: You know, friend, pal, chum.
- Sylvia Rumley: Oh, why doesn't he say chum?
- Alison Kirbe: Because he says part.
- Alison Kirbe: You obviously brought me here with the intention of making love to me. So, I suppose, I must just let you make love to me.
- Terence Keath: How would you like to talk about beef cattle this morning?
- Alison Kirbe: Dead or alive?
- Terence Keath: Oh, both ways.
- Matthew Kinston: I'm afraid I owe you an apology. I was rather fresh last night.
- Alison Kirbe: I do think you might have waited till we'd known each other a little longer than an hour.
- Matthew Kinston: Say, an hour and half?
- Alison Kirbe: Even two hours wouldn't be considered exactly Victorian.
- Matthew Kinston: I can't figure that girl out. I don't know whether she's Delilah and baby face Little Red Riding Hood or what!
- Jeremy Taylor: You see, I'm a lily of the field that's what I was born for, to enjoy myself. But you won't let me.
- Terence Keath: Going swimming?
- Jeremy Taylor: Uh, as soon as we get our clothes off.
- Alison Kirbe: Yes, we are. Would you like to join us?
- Jeremy Taylor: You all alone?
- Alison Kirbe: Deserted.
- Jeremy Taylor: Well, it's those legal fellows for you. Business, business, business.
- Jeremy Taylor: When I went to our cabin and saw your clothes I knew that one of two things had happened. Either you were gone to the swimming pool or you were running around the ship's dock naked.
- Matthew Kinston: Well, thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt.
- Jeremy Taylor: I didn't.
- Alison Kirbe: I want to have a long talk with you.
- Jeremy Taylor: Oh, about what?
- Alison Kirbe: You.
- Jeremy Taylor: Oh, my favorite subject.
- Alison Kirbe: Why should I worry about *your* money? I have plenty of money of my own. I've got so much money, I'm, I'm not quite used to it. I've got so much, I'm vulgar about it. I'm, I'm, nouveau riche!
- Matthew Kinston: You wouldn't want to injure her neck muscles, would you?
- Terence Keath: No.
- Alison Kirbe: I knew you'd understand.
- Jeremy Taylor: I certainly like that hat.
- Terence Keath: Well, I still prefer the blue one.
- Jeremy Taylor: No, much too conservative. That one was only $40. This one is useless and extravagant and that's what makes a girl feel good.
- Matthew Kinston: [kiss] You're such an awful girl.
- Alison Kirbe: And you're such a dreadful fellow.
- Matthew Kinston: You're a captivating, entrancing, heavenly little grifter.
- Alison Kirbe: Darling.
- [kiss]
- Vincent Maran: Six thousand clams? You know, we were so busy figurin' out how to get your money away from you we never bothered to figure out if you had any.
- Alison Kirbe: Must be somewhere we can make some money quickly.
- Vincent Maran: You might as well save yourself some time. We gotta make a pile of dough in a hurry. And there's no honest way of doin' that.
- Alison Kirbe: Are you afraid, I might have plans against your pet client, Jeremy?
- Matthew Kinston: No.
- Alison Kirbe: Well, I do.
- Vincent Maran: Any child could tell you. A con game is like a dipsy-do. And now you see it, now you don't. When you're workin' a con, you get people thinkin' of one thing, then you do another.
- Alison Kirbe: You do?
- Vincent Maran: I don't. I'm not pretty enough. You do!
- Alison Kirbe: I do what?
- Vincent Maran: And now you see it, now you don't.
- Alison Kirbe: There's no need for us to break off socially just because you found out I'm dishonest.
- Matthew Kinston: Look, I may sound like a sap saying this but even at the risk of being trite, why don't you give up this life?
- Alison Kirbe: You mean go straight?
- Matthew Kinston: That's exactly what I mean.
- Alison Kirbe: Well, haven't you forgotten something?
- Matthew Kinston: What?
- Alison Kirbe: Shouldn't you offer me the love of a pure man?
- Terence Keath: It's a genuine Persian prayer rug. Oh, it's been in her family for years.
- Jeremy Taylor: I never knew she was Persian.
- Matthew Kinston: When did the fish ever get to enjoy the bait? They'll sell you a gold brick and leave town.
- Terence Keath: [to Alison] Well, with me, you can have everything your own way.
- Jeremy Taylor: And with me, you can have anything and everything you ever wanted.
- Matthew Kinston: I won't bid for you, I won't offer you money and I won't let you be boss.
- Terence Keath, Jeremy Taylor: Well?