Bette Davis credited as playing...
Susan Grieve
- Slick Novak: Grandpappy came to US because there was a demand for cheap labor. He wasn't a pioneer, he was an immigrant.
- Susan Grieve: I don't see the difference!
- Slick Novak: Maybe you don't. Most folks do.
- Stacy Grant: People make much too much fuss about love. So many things are more interesting!
- Susan Grieve: Such as?
- Stacy Grant: Well, society, gardening, a good murder mystery - even snails in garlic butter.
- Susan Grieve: I dare say you have me properly pigeonholed. Well-to-do Yankee spinster, no emotions worth mentioning, I really should have a cat.
- Susan Grieve: It's disconcerting, isn't it - to be involved with someone with exceptional quality; especially to those of us who aren't exceptional at all.
- Susan Grieve: I was bringing your breakfast in bed. I want to pamper you and you won't cooperate.
- Slick Novak: Sorry, I'll do better next time.
- Susan Grieve: Well, anyway, here it is.
- Slick Novak: Oh, I don't want any breakfast.
- Susan Grieve: Can't I watch you eat? I like the way your mouth moves. Its fascinating.
- Stacy Grant: It seems to me I've been walking up and down stairs for hours.
- Susan Grieve: Its good for you.
- Stacy Grant: I *loath* clean living and outdoor sports.
- Stacy Grant: Susan, I like your poems very much.
- Susan Grieve: No you don't.
- Stacy Grant: I'm no judge really.
- Susan Grieve: You probably prefer the Byron school. All fire and brimstone.
- Stacy Grant: I'm only trying to warn you he's just a nice American kid.
- Susan Grieve: Oh, those nice American kids - torn from Mom and a girlfriend, from the ice cream cone and the hot dog, and the car and a good paying job, learning to kill and be killed - an easy, cosy pattern. You have no more idea of what goes on in the heads of those nice American kids than the man in the moon.
- Susan Grieve: Where did you run into him?
- Stacy Grant: He was at a party, bored stiff, on his way to being tight. I asked him on impulse. Now I wonder why. Frankly the idea of dinner with Peggy and Novak...
- Susan Grieve: Peggy?
- Stacy Grant: My exceedingly beautiful and arrogant secretary. She's going to be for the hero. Blind date, I believe it's called. Grisly idea.
- Susan Grieve: And I'm supposed to be for you. To make the whole thing look less obvious.
- Susan Grieve: Don't you worry about tomorrow night. I'll wear my most seductive dress, I'll put perfume behind my ears, I will not argue, and I will be a credit to you.
- Stacy Grant: That's a good girl.
- Stacy Grant: There he is. At the bar, as usual.
- Susan Grieve: You seem to forget, lonely, young men in uniform like to sit somewhere besides the hotel room.
- Susan Grieve: I think he dislikes us intensely.
- Stacy Grant: Oh dear, here they come. I can't remember when I've had a more exhausting evening.
- Susan Grieve: I think I better go home. I have to be up at seven. I know its unfortunate to be the first to suggest to leave.
- Stacy Grant: But, of course, Susan, dear. No matter how dull the party, the first one to leave is momentarily loathed by everyone.
- Slick Novak: I guess I just never ran into a girl as bright as you.
- Susan Grieve: Its your own fault. If you'd gone with Peggy...
- Slick Novak: Quit dragging her into it or I'll bop you one on the nose. If I'd wanted Peggy, I could have gone with her. I happen to like you.
- Slick Novak: Oh.
- Susan Grieve: I'm afraid I'm not very good at entertaining a hero.
- Mr. Castle: Have I complained?
- Susan Grieve: We seem constantly at swords points. Well, we have one thing in common, at least. We both smoke.
- Susan Grieve: Once in awhile, you'd think we were passengers exchanging information on a train. I guess I'm not very good at this sort of thing.
- Slick Novak: That's for me to decide, isn't it?
- Susan Grieve: She started having little flirtations. Harmless, at first, but more serious as time went on. When she was in the middle of one of them, she'd be kind and gay.