The Old Maid

Charlotte Lovell: She thinks I can't understand her. She considers me an old maid.

Delia Lovell Ralston: My dear.

Charlotte Lovell: A ridiculous, narrow-minded old maid. What else can she ever think of me?

Delia Lovell Ralston: Poor Charlotte.

Charlotte Lovell: Oh, but you needn't pity me. Because she's really mine. If she considers me an old maid, it's because I've deliberately made myself one in her eyes. I've done it from the beginning so she wouldn't have the least suspicion. I've practised everything I've ever had to say to her, if it was important, so that I'd sound like an old maid aunt talking. Not her mother.

Delia Lovell Ralston: Well, after all, darling, there isn't anything important to say to her now. She has every attribute of a modern successful woman - she's healthy, she's young, she's gay, she's attractive...