- Doreta: Madame, there's an Indian in the apartment!
- Marianna Duval: Well, you needn't be so frightened. He's not an Indian. He's only an assassin.
- Doreta: Madame, I'm very tolerant of the manner in which my employers amuse themselves. But when they start filling their apartments with naked assassins - I give my notice.
- Marianna Duval: Use your head, Doreta. He's the fake policeman of last night.
- Paul Boliet: [enters wearing a blanket and looks out of window] The police still have the block surrounded, I'll have to stay.
- Marianna Duval: There, you see, Doreta. He has to stay.
- Doreta: Well, I don't.
- Paul Boliet: You'll earn the gratitude of the Party...
- Doreta: I'm no Communist. I worked hard for my savings and I'm splitting with nobody - revolution or no revolution.
- Marianna Duval: Doreta, hand me my robe. If the revolution's coming, I want to be properly dressed for it.
- Paul Boliet: Where's the bathtub?
- Marianna Duval: I thought Communists never bathed.
- Paul Boliet: Fascist propaganda! Where's the tub?
- Marianna Duval: In there.
- Marianne Duval: Tell me one thing - how many people have you killed?
- Paul Boliet: Including women, nineteen.
- Marianne Duval: No children?
- Paul Boliet: We don't count children.
- Marianne Duval: You're a liar and a fake. You never shot anyone.
- Marianne Duval: How did you ever find time between revolutions to learn to dance so well?
- Paul Boliet: I was an organizer once in a taxi dance hall in America.
- Marianne Duval: Oh, really?
- Paul Boliet: It was my worst failure. Taxi dancers are born capitalists. They all want to marry millionaires.
- Paul Boliet: She was older than I was.
- Marianne Duval: Oh, oh, the mother complex, I know.
- Paul Boliet: I was five and she was six.
- Marianne Duval: Oh, the old hag.
- Butcher: [Holding up a huge cut of beef] He's got enough here for six people.
- Marianne Duval: Only if the other five don't eat.
- Doreta: Mmm, for a comrade, you give plenty of orders. Come the revolution there'll be no bosses but you. You'll have to assassinate yourself.
- Paul Boliet: Anarchism is people without government.
- Marianne Duval: And communism is government without people.
- Marianne Duval: You were worried about me?
- Paul Boliet: Certainly! What would happen to me if something happened to you?
- Marianne Duval: Must the distribution of wealth start with my ice box?
- Paul Boliet: Was the chicken created only for the rich?
- Doreta: I'm no communist. I worked hard for my savings and I'm splitting with nobody - revolution or no revolution.
- Marianne Duval: Doreta, coffee for Mr. Duval. Strong and black - he's convalescing from the assassination.
- Maurice Duval: Come home, Marianne. It's so empty without you.
- Marianne Duval: Empty? With 25 servants and four secretaries? Oh, really, Mauirce.
- Maurice Duval: I need you. Please come home.
- Marianne Duval: Home? One hundred and eighteen rooms. I was lonely and lost in every one of them.
- Marianna Duval: Why, Maurice, have you been biting your fingernails again?
- Maurice Duval: Oh, Marianne, haven't you a heart? Don't you realize that three hours ago I was practically assassinated?
- Doreta: [Answering the door] So it's you.
- Maurice Duval: No. I'm at my bank. If you hurry you may catch me there.
- Andre Dorlay: My dear Duval, my papers aren't Bolshevik, they're liberal. We advocated an investigation of your bank, but I deny that we ever suggested an assassination. However, it's a very good idea. Perhaps in the next editions.
- Marianne Duval: Oh, I haven't seen this afternoons paper. Why didn't you tell me about it, André?
- Andre Dorlay: I didn't want to bore you. Assassination! A bullet fired by a crazy waiter who escaped hit his coffee cup and a little sliver of carbon hit his finger. Why, it's a mere scratch.
- Maurice Duval: See, he's just worried because I wasn't killed.
- Marianne Duval: [Lifting Paul's pant-leg] Let me see something. Look, he stopped discriminating against silk socks.
- Paul Boliet: [Lights a cigarette] Phooey, perfume! Is everything around here perfumed? Most people who smoke, smoke tobacco.
- Marianne Duval: How do you know I won't break my word?
- Paul Boliet: Hah! Women of your class have a sense of honor in everything except love affairs. It gives you a fake feeling of virtue.
- Maurice Duval: I won't be insulted in my own apartment.
- Andre Dorlay: Your wife's apartment.
- Maurice Duval: All right, I won't be insulted in my wife's apartment.
- Doreta: Do all communists eat like you?
- Paul Boliet: Humph! In the days of plenty, provide for the lean days ahead. More butter!
- Paul Boliet: What are these?
- Marianne Duval: Socks. They go on your feet inside your shoes.
- Paul Boliet: Kinda thin, aren't they?
- Marianne Duval: Uh, huh. Silk!
- Paul Boliet: Ah, yes. That's the stuff those worms are forced to produce for the rich.
- Marianne Duval: André is only an old and trusted friend.
- Maurice Duval: Yes, the kind of a trusted friend a husband usually shoots.
- Marianne Duval: Get out of here, you anarchist!
- Paul Boliet: Hah! Don't insult me. I'm not an anarchist. The difference between anarchism and communism is ..
- Marianne Duval: How did you get back in here anyway?
- Paul Boliet: [Pulling a key from his pocket] I once organized the locksmiths.
- Paul Boliet: [after Marianne bites his hand when he stops her from screaming] Ouch! You capitalistic cannibal. Tisn't enough that you exploit us, you have to eat us too. Ouch!
- [Marianne is laughing]
- Marianne Duval: You're rapidly forcing me into bigamy. I know. I know. Comes the revolution and we'll organize bigamy.
- Marianne Duval: [after Doreta enters her bedroom screaming that there's an Indian downstairs] Well, you needn't be so frightened. He isn't an Indian. He's only an assassin.
- Paul Boliet: [Pointing his gun at Marianne] Being shot at close range isn't my idea of a joke. How do you feel about it?
- Doreta: Madame, I'm very tolerant of the manner in which my employers amuse themselves. But when they start filling their apartments with naked assassins, I give my notice.
- Marianne Duval: Use your head, Doreta. He's the fake policeman of last night.
- Paul Boliet: I don't want a false note in this disguise.
- Marianne Duval: Dis... eh heh, what are you disguised as?
- Paul Boliet: A banker.
- Marianne Duval: Look, there are six apartments in this building.
- Paul Boliet: Hah! But this is the safest - they know I'm not here.
- Maurice Duval: You're giving a murderer a chance?
- Paul Boliet: [Dressed in a policeman's uniform] Murderer? He's no murderer. All he did was to scratch the finger of an over-stuffed sausage. But unfortunately, a politically important over-stuffed sausage.
- Marianne Duval: [Pointing to Maurice] Officer, he's the man you've just called an over-stuffed sausage.
- Paul Boliet: [Looking over Maurice] Incredible?
- Maurice Duval: What's incredible?
- Paul Boliet: That even a bad marksman could miss - there's so much of you.
- Marianna Duval: What do I do if he doesn't propose?
- Doreta: Well, you propose to him.
- Marianna Duval: Doreta!
- Doreta: What've you got to lose?
- Marianna Duval: Only my self-respect.
- Doreta: Oh, you're a young and beautiful woman - it's about time you lost it.
- Paul Boliet: I don't want you to think I'm ungrateful. I know I've caused you a lot of trouble.
- Marianne Duval: Stop! Please! I can stand anything but your trying to behave like a gentleman.
- Marianne Duval: Is it very difficult, being a lobster fisherman's wife?
- Paul Boliet: Not if you apply yourself.
- Andre Dorlay: Duval, I'm afraid from a duet we've become a trio.
- Maurice Duval: Why, it's getting so a husband doesn't know who to shoot anymore.
- Andre Dorlay: May I offer you a brandy?
- Maurice Duval: A brandy? Yes. By all means.
- Andre Dorlay: We've been betrayed by a size 42.
- Comrade Tronavich: I wish I were going with you.
- Paul Boliet: You might not like America.
- Comrade Tronavich: Nah! Only communists don't like America.
- Paul Boliet: Communists don't like any place where there's freedom for everybody.
- Maurice Duval: Give me that gun.
- Andre Dorlay: [Watching Paul and Marianne kiss] Shhh! It's beautiful.
- Maurice Duval: It's bigamy.
- Paul Boliet: We've been charter members of the chumps association - singing about freedom for the world. From now on, I'm gonna be just a plain ordinary middle class citizen.
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