- Jim Bradler: [they embrace each other] Vida!
- Vida Carew: Ouch! Are you afraid I'll run away?
- Jim Bradler: Yes. I'll never be sure of you. Nobody could. When I was away, I had this sickening fear that maybe you might change your mind.
- Vida Carew: Why should I? It's all so simple. I don't want to live with Steven. I do want to live with you. Why, Jim, I believe in your heart you think I'm really wicked.
- Jim Bradler: Of course you are. So am I.
- Vida Carew: Am I as thin as when you left me?
- Jim Bradler: What ever way you are suits me. You know, they all think I came back for oil. I hate the smell of it. I'm through with oil. From now on, I want perfume. You! I've laid our lives out like a Cook's tour. Only we won't go places where tourists go or places not even on the map. Let's leave right away. Tonight.
- Vida Carew: Jim! What about... what about, him?
- Jim Bradler: I'll tell him.
- Vida Carew: I'd rather you wouldn't. Couldn't we just get away and leave a note or something?
- Jim Bradler: Why?
- Vida Carew: I haven't told him anything. It'd be such a shock. I hate scenes and arguments.
- Jim Bradler: There won't be any. I'll just tell him.
- Vida Carew: When?
- Jim Bradler: Tonight, after dinner.
- Vida Carew: If someone tried to take me away from you, what would you do?
- Jim Bradler: I'd kill them.