- Nancy Andrews: I hear you drink more than is good for you.
- Tommy Duncan: An escape.
- Nancy Andrews: You'll end up ruining your health.
- Tommy Duncan: Health, like money, is no good unless you spend it.
- Nancy Andrews: I hear you're very lavish with both.
- Tommy Duncan: It's my way of having fun.
- Nancy Andrews: What are you running away from?
- Tommy Duncan: Life.
- Nancy Andrews: I didn't know drinking could help you avoid life.
- Tommy Duncan: It does.
- Nancy Andrews: How?
- Tommy Duncan: You being naïve?
- Nancy Andrews: No, I'd like to know.
- Tommy Duncan: Where do you come from, anyway?
- Nancy Andrews: Messina, Ohio.
- Tommy Duncan: Oh, Indian country.
- Nancy Andrews: You mind turning on the radio? Oh, and Elmer, there are hardly any cigarettes in here. I wish you'd keep this filled.
- Elmer: Yes, ma'am.
- Nancy Andrews: And you might mix some cocktails.
- Elmer: They're mixed.
- Nancy Andrews: Put on something hot.
- Elmer: Madam, I don't know how to mix hot cocktails.
- Nancy Andrews: I mean the radio.
- Nancy Andrews: You know, if you hadn't been with Mr. Duncan for such a long time, I'd fire you.
- Elmer: I wouldn't mind. Give me a chance to catch up on some sleep.
- Nancy Andrews: You're not my idea of a butler.
- Elmer: You're not my idea.
- Nancy Andrews: You like my hat, Elmer?
- Elmer: No!
- Nancy Andrews: Why, it's the latest thing.
- Elmer: I don't care.
- Nancy Andrews: Oh, what's wrong with it?
- Elmer: It don't belong to ya.
- Nancy Andrews: I bought it.
- Elmer: It still don't belong to ya. It belongs to somebody you think ya are.
- Tommy Duncan: You aren't complaining, Elmer?
- Elmer: Why should I complain? I've had two wonderful hours sleep every night for a week.
- Nancy Andrews: Well, it's all your fault. You said you were going to teach me how to live. I'm gonna learn if it kills me.
- Tommy Duncan: Learning how to live is one thing. We didn't enter into a suicide pact.
- Tommy Duncan: If you've got something in your system that bothers ya, get rid of it. An inhibition is only a small fact of life that people refuse to face. And later on when you're asleep or, shall we say, slightly relaxed...
- Nancy Andrews: Relaxed is a good word.
- Tommy Duncan: ...out it pops. The minute you face the fact, it ceases to be an inhibition. Am I making sense, or are these eggs getting the better of me?
- Nancy Andrews: I only wish I could get rid of some of my inhibitions sometime when I'm conscious.
- Tommy Duncan: Did I ever tell you about my obsession?
- Nancy Andrews: I didn't know you had one.
- Tommy Duncan: Yeah, when I was a baby, a black cat crawled into my crib and sat on my chest. Scared the living daylights out of me. For years, I used to wake up at night and see that cat's eyes staring at me. Well, I got rid of that.
- Nancy Andrews: Don't tell me you dropped a black cat down the back of some woman's evening dress?
- Tommy Duncan: No. My grandmother filled the house with black cats. Black cats upstairs, downstairs, in the bed, underneath the bed. Lady, I got so I could meow right in the cat's face and never bat an eye. If a cat scratched me, I scratched it back. That got rid of that complex.
- Tommy Duncan: Uh, Mrs. Duncan, I'd like to present Mrs. Duncan.
- Nancy Andrews: How do you do!
- Sheila: I suppose we should all congratulate each other.
- Tommy Duncan: I've already done it. You three can go ahead.
- Nancy Andrews: Congratulations!
- [Shakes hands with Sheila]
- Sheila: Oh, congratulations.
- Nancy Andrews: Congratulations!
- [Shakes hands with Steve]
- Steve Duncan: Congratulations!
- Nancy Andrews: Maybe we can all celebrate our anniversaries together if our husbands remember.
- Sheila: They can always be prompted.
- Tommy Duncan: I've been doing a lot of thinking this past year.
- Nancy Andrews: Have you?
- Tommy Duncan: Yeah. The Army has a way of toughening up your muscles and softening up your pride.
- Nancy Andrews: Well, you mustn't allow anything to soften your pride.
- Tommy Duncan: I suppose you never will forgive me.
- Nancy Andrews: Nothing to forgive.
- Tommy Duncan: I can be sorry, can't I?
- Nancy Andrews: Are you?
- Tommy Duncan: I guess I was pretty hurt at the time.
- Nancy Andrews: Maybe you had a right to be.
- Tommy Duncan: I had no right to be crude.