John Hoyt credited as playing...
Stacy Grant
- Stacy Grant: [to Peggy] Let me give you a piece of advice, culled from years of devestating experience. Next to loss of money, deafness, and skin disease, passion can be the most dangerous.
- 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.
- Stacy Grant: Susan, dear, I'm afraid you're very like one of those dignified elderly gentlemen, who sits in the window of his dignified club, gazing out at the crowds of underprivileged going by in the rain.
- Stacy Grant: Susan loves nature and the downtrodden. Sometimes I think she loves them the way a dentist loves a bad tooth.
- 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: You make a habit of riding in those frightful things? Those clanging monsters. I shall never step one foot underground again. I'm neither a mole nor angleworm.
- 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.
- Stacy Grant: I'm a bore and victim of everybody: my friends, my secretary, my business clients, why even of a casual stranger whom I meet and immediately ask out to dinner.
- 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.
- Stacy Grant: Susan, dear, I feel you have things to tell me. Why don't you just consider me as some doting old uncle, for the moment; the one who once photographed you on a bearskin rug.
- Susan Grieve: Oh, Stacy, there are times when you are positively shameless.
- Stacy Grant: Darling, you look divine. Is it a new hat?
- Susan Grieve: Yes, it is. It cost far too much.