- Mrs. Preston - Peggy's Mother: Aren't you having tea Mr. Ross?
- Billy Ross: I never touch it. My doctor tells me it's poison!
- Mrs. Preston - Peggy's Mother: Really?
- Billy Ross: I'll get you some.
- Billy Ross: Believe me, she's bad medicine. One of those blondes - with a mother. They hunt together. What the gal shoots down, Mama drags home.
- Billy Ross: Well, I still insist you cannot teach a woman anything!
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: You think we're too stupid to learn?
- Billy Ross: No, too clever.
- Mrs. Sally Ross: [reading the label] Not more than 40 percent alcohol... um hmm... I thought so.
- Billy Ross: Why the idea! 40. Well, that's probably to keep the iron from rusting.
- Billy Ross: [Talking to Nancy] All men are like that. You marry 'em. You put 'em in cages. You lock 'em up every night and you say "Oh, see my nice tame husband." But, you just leave them for a little while and you see what happens?
- Mrs. Sally Ross: Well, what does happen?
- Billy Ross: Peggy Preston. And your nice tame husband isn't tame anymore. He's wild! And you either get him back in the cage or you lose him.
- Billy Ross: Well, how 'bout meeting me, as long as it's a family party? I'm Bill Ross, Don's partner.
- Miss Peggy Preston: Oh, I know you. You always ran like a rabbit every time Don and I crossed your trail in town.
- Billy Ross: Well, I'll tell ya, I'm a two-way man. I can run from women and toward women.
- Sir Guy Harrington: Pretty little thing, Mrs. Gibson. I met her on the boat coming over.
- Miss Peggy Preston: Oh! I thought that *you* were her own private property.
- Sir Guy Harrington: No, dear me, no. I'm nobody's private property. I'm just a canary without a cage. And you?
- Miss Peggy Preston: Just a cage without a canary.
- Sir Guy Harrington: You can't ever lose a man who really loves you and you can't hold one who doesn't.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: [laughing] Oh, Don, don't be early Victorian. Divorce does happen. It happened to practically all of our friends, it's not surprising it should happen to us.
- Donald 'Don': I know; but, I didn't think you'd take it like this.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: Oh, I know, you expected me to cry my eyes out and make a scene. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you. But, you see, modern women don't act like that. We say, "Oh, our husband wants to go - does he. Very well, then, let him. Maybe next time we'll have better luck and get a really good one."
- Sir Guy Harrington: I thought all American women were restless and dissatisfied.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: But, you've never been to America.
- Sir Guy Harrington: No. But, I've met a lot of your country women on the continent.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: Well, that accounts for it. Our happy women stay home.
- Sir Guy Harrington: You didn't.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: What's he doing in Philadelphia?
- Billy Ross: Who?
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: Don.
- Billy Ross: Oh, yes, Philadelphia. Now, he's all right. I don't know. What's anybody do down there.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: If Don's all right, nothing else matters.
- Billy Ross: Well, he, eh, isn't exactly all right. You see, there was some oats.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: Oats?
- Billy Ross: Well, some wild oats.
- Mrs. Sally Ross: Oh, Bill you're a mess!
- Billy Ross: All right, then, there's a girl.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: A girl?
- Billy Ross: Don's gone haywire over a girl.
- Miss Peggy Preston: Well, I know what my first job as an honest, married woman will be. I'll throw out everything in this room and get something modern!
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: It's so nice and modern to be - modern and not care who's husband belongs to who.
- Mrs. Preston - Peggy's Mother: I like the country. Don't you like the country, Mr. Ross?
- Billy Ross: Yes, when I'm in the city.
- Billy Ross: I'm not trying to be funny. I just don't believe in marriage, that's all. Have you ever been married Mrs. Preston?
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: Why, Bill! Of course she has.
- Billy Ross: Oh, of course! I don't know what I could've been thinking of?
- Mrs. Preston - Peggy's Mother: Oh, Mr. Ross, you're such an old tease!
- Billy Ross: Yes, I am sort of a tease.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: I suppose one could like one's husband's wife even if one didn't like one's husband.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: Why does everyone look so surprised? Is it so extraordinary that I should inspire love and devotion in some manly breast?
- Billy Ross: I was born under Venus, myself. Well, that is, in a matter of speaking.
- Mrs. Preston - Peggy's Mother: So was I.
- [With a wink and a grin]
- Mrs. Preston - Peggy's Mother: What I know about you!
- Billy Ross: Oh, my, naughty, naughty, naughty.
- Miss Peggy Preston: You really shouldn't leave me alone with Mrs. Gibson. She puts wicked ideas into my head.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: Isn't he the perfect husband. No matter what you do, my dear, he'll always believe in you.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: I don't see why you should care what I do.
- Donald 'Don': I don't care a hang what you do! It's Peggy I'm thinking of.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: Oh, that pure little flower!
- Sir Guy Harrington: Perhaps, now, there'll be a little chance for me.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: Oh, it's sweet of you to want me.
- Sir Guy Harrington: But, you're still the lady who loves her husband?
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: Aren't women fools!
- Sir Guy Harrington: [Looking out the window at Don] I know who is a fool.
- Mrs. Nancy Gibson: [At the bridge table] Don plays a beautiful game.
- Miss Peggy Preston: Very comforting - when you lose the rubber!
- Donald 'Don': I want you to get rid of Peggy and give Nancy of square deal.
- Sir Guy Harrington: Am I to understand that you're suggesting that I devote myself in the future - to your wife?
- Sir Guy Harrington: You may be right. As a matter of fact, I'm not at all sure that you're wrong. You may be right. And then again, you may be wrong.
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