- Philip Adams: Oh, I tell you. Women are not the sensitive sex. That's one of the grand delusions of literature. Men are the true romanticists.
- Anna Kalman: Now you stay down here and I'll go up and be charming. And keep your fingers crossed.
- Philip Adams: Why can't I go with you?
- Anna Kalman: Well, this is a very delicate and diplomatic matter, I don't want you putting your foot in it.
- Philip Adams: I deal with diplomatic matters every day without feet.
- Anna Kalman: I like a man with a glass in his hand. It's becoming.
- Philip Adams: Oh, in that case, I'll gladly hold it.
- Anna Kalman: You have to sip it once in awhile too. That's part of the picture.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: We're all overwrought now. We're not thinking clearly.
- Anna Kalman: Well, I am thinking clearly!
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: No, you're not. You have the feeling that you're a wronged woman.
- Anna Kalman: I am a wronged woman!
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Well, you know what I mean.
- Anna Kalman: Well, You know what I mean. I'm the wrongedest woman you ever saw and Im going to pay him back with interest - two or three thousand per cent of interest.
- Philip Adams: I buy you presents because I like to please you.
- [kiss]
- Anna Kalman: I wish you didn't have any money.
- [kisss]
- Anna Kalman: I wonder if I would've said that If you hadn't just bought a yacht.
- Philip Adams: Well, let's believe you would.
- [kiss]
- Philip Adams: Why are you behaving so strangely? You've been in a dozen different moods, Most of which I've never seen before.
- Anna Kalman: Mystery, that is my stock in trade. I'm a woman, you know.
- Philip Adams: I know. I'll testify to that.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Now, do we have to go to this silly old dinner? The speaker will bore us and they won't miss us.
- Alfred Munson: Well, they'd miss him, my dear - he's the speaker.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: This happens to me all the time!
- Anna Kalman: I am over 21.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Are you doing the right thing?
- Anna Kalman: I don't know. I have no choice. I did have in the beginning; but, not now.
- Anna Kalman: Now, about this present. It looks very expensive. It's so small.
- Philip Adams: Well, it is expensive.
- Anna Kalman: I'll take it. I deserve it.
- Philip Adams: Sending a rose to the table, that's really adolescent, isn't it?
- Anna Kalman: Well.
- Philip Adams: He's not very considerate, calling you at this time of night.
- Anna Kalman: Well, he knows that I don't go to bed until later. Oh, I'm sorry. That was the wrong thing to say, wasn't it? Try to forget it. Put it out of your mind.
- Anna Kalman: [on the phone] No, no. I'm not alone. Doris is here.
- Philip Adams: [sitting on the bed next to Anna] Doris is leaving.
- [leaves]
- Philip Adams: I think an ex-suitor, who doesn't realize he's an ex-suitor, and doesn't stay ex'd is the most despicable kind of human being! I'd tell him so to his face!
- Anna Kalman: He's taller than you are.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: I don't know what you expect from a man. You know there's a limit to how entertaining they can be.
- Anna Kalman: Well, they ought to be able to talk a little, simple sentences.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: You told me that he was good-looking and that he danced beautifully. That's all a woman's entitled to. You can always read a good book.
- Anna Kalman: Dear little sister, go wash your mind with soap.
- Anna Kalman: Go to the movies. No, no, Doris, tomorrow.
- Doris Banks: How would you like me to give you a nice massage?
- Anna Kalman: Tomorrow.
- Doris Banks: I'll get you some hot milk.
- Anna Kalman: No. No. No. N - O - no. G - O go.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Now, what's wrong with you? You planned to be away for the whole winter and here you are, back again after 10 days.
- Anna Kalman: I didn't find it interesting.
- Anna Kalman: Is it possible that the trouble isn't with Majorca?
- Anna Kalman: Possible.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: What happened to the colonel That you wrote to me about in your letter? The one who looked like a Greek statue.
- Anna Kalman: He talked like a Greek statue. I don't think he knew more than a dozen words. Scotch and soda and one or two more.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: You were impressed with him when you first met him.
- Anna Kalman: I hadn't heard the dozen words.
- Anna Kalman: This is a side of you I've never seen before. A sort of maternal white slaver.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: I'm not sympathetic. You've plenty of beaus. You're beautiful, talented, and famous. You're an actress who's the envy of everyone who knows you.
- Anna Kalman: But then they don't know me.
- Anna Kalman: Would you care to see the performance now? I'll play all the parts. How much money was it?
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: [after being introduced to Philip Adams] Who in heaven's name is that?
- Alfred Munson: Stop breathing so hard.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Oh, I didn't know it showed. Who is he? What is he? And speak slowly.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: All these years married and never once. And now I have a confession to make. At dinner, I thought he was pressing his knee against mine. It turned out to be a table leg. I was disappointed.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Well, what about this Mr. Adams?
- Alfred Munson: What do you want to know?
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Everything. And I mean, everything.
- Alfred Munson: Well, I don't think he's romantically attached - which is what you're hinting.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: I'm not hinting, I'm *asking*.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Stop playing games. Don't tell me you don't like this one. Why, he talks, and everything!
- Anna Kalman: I must say, you've been palming yourself off as a single man.
- Philip Adams: I must've sounded quite idiotic blurting it out like that.
- Anna Kalman: Oh, no, not at all. It was very proper and pertinent.
- Philip Adams: And rather vain, too.
- Anna Kalman: Vain? Why?
- Philip Adams: Well, the implication was that you wouldn't be able to keep your hands off me. That sounds pretty silly, too.
- Anna Kalman: Well, you'll never know now.
- Anna Kalman: It's unusual for the weather to be muggy this time of year.
- Philip Adams: Yes. I read an article the other day that claimed the world's weather was changing.
- Anna Kalman: Really? Well, that's interesting.
- Philip Adams: Yes. Isn't it.
- Philip Adams: I must tell you this. I've been sorely tempted to break the rules, And I've been debating it all evening.
- Anna Kalman: Evidently your honor is stronger than my beauty.
- Philip Adams: Those are the rules between grown-up men and women. Or, should be. The trouble is, the game is so one-sided for a man.
- Anna Kalman: Yes, I think it is, too.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: I'm just curious to know what you did with your day apart from rehearsing.
- Anna Kalman: Well, if you're interested, I get up in the morning and I brush my teeth, And then I have breakfast. Then, I read the morning paper.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: What about Mr. Philip Adams?
- Anna Kalman: What about him?
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Mr. Adams was here last weekend, And he's taken a permanent suite one floor below you.
- Anna Kalman: How do you know?
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Alfred.
- Anna Kalman: You mean, Philip told Alfred he was here?
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Not Philip. Scotland Yard.
- Anna Kalman: Scotland Yard?
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Scotland Yard doesn't allow new members of NATO to wander around without knowing where they go.
- Anna Kalman: Oh, for heaven sakes. Anything else they know?
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Everything else they know. You can take my word for it.
- Anna Kalman: Well, the country's come to a fine state: Peeping Toms. Spying.
- Philip Adams: You don't understand these thing. It's called scattering your risk. You invest in different places.
- Anna Kalman: We are right for each other. We are good for each other, my darling.
- Philip Adams: We are, we are.
- Carl Banks: What's to become of it?
- Doris Banks: What has to come of it?
- Carl Banks: It can't go on like this.
- Doris Banks: Why not?
- Carl Banks: A man, a wife, another woman. I think about that.
- Anna Kalman: I always look at the end of the book. I can never wait.
- Philip Adams: I know. You have no restraint.
- Philip Adams: The Secretary called me into his office, sat me down, and gave me a cigar - a good cigar.
- Anna Kalman: Oh, that's nice. And then?
- Philip Adams: He wanted to know if Id accept a change of assignment. New York.
- Anna Kalman: New York?
- Philip Adams: Yes. That's what I said, New York.
- Anna Kalman: Well, give him his cigar back.
- Philip Adams: You're the most transparent man I ever saw. I hope NATO isn't trusting you with any secrets.
- Philip Adams: Oh, you'd be surprised.
- Anna Kalman: Let's hear one.
- Philip Adams: Oh, you would be surprised, Mata Hari.
- Alfred Munson: There's one thing I'm very curious about. I'm hesitant to mention it to you - for fear you'll be offended.
- Philip Adams: Then perhaps you shouldn't.
- Alfred Munson: That's very romantic. I didn't mean that disparagingly. I envy you your touch. But it's my belief that success with women Is something that you're born with. You're not entitled to any of the credit.
- Philip Adams: You're very beautiful when you cry.
- Anna Kalman: Oh, I'm sure. Pink eyes. Pink eyes are very becoming.
- Anna Kalman: Don't you dare to scare me like that again. You were definite about refusing, weren't you?
- Philip Adams: No, darling, I left it open.
- Anna Kalman: But why?
- Philip Adams: I wanted your advice.
- Anna Kalman: Well, you have it.
- Philip Adams: Yes, you see, I omitted a sidelight. You do want to hear the case for both sides, don't you?
- Anna Kalman: Well, not particularly.
- Alfred Munson: Did Philip ask you to come to New York?
- Anna Kalman: Oh, Philip? Oh, no, he'd never. He'd be too concerned about my reputation. He's the most considerate, unselfish, honorable man that ever lived.
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: Oh, I'm burning candles for him.
- Alfred Munson: You know, when you come to think of it, it's all very strange. It was perfectly all right when he was married, when you'd think that it wouldn't be. And now that we know that he's single, when it should be all right, if you know what I mean, well, it isn't. Do you follow me?
- Mrs. Margaret Munson: No, I don't follow you.
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