Dorothy McGuire credited as playing...
Ellen Pierce
- Ellen Pierce: There is something much more important than keeping alive, and that is knowing that you have lived.
- Ellen Bowker: I'm going to be a spinster, father. All my life. But there is an awful lot to be said for it.
- Maud Redwick: [coldly] Please say what you have to say to me and go.
- Ellen Pierce: If that's the way you want it.
- Maud Redwick: How else would you think I'd want it?
- Ellen Pierce: Well, I hoped things might have changed.
- Maud Redwick: Why?
- Ellen Pierce: That you might have thought it over.
- Maud Redwick: And say all right, Ellen, no hard feelings? It was a fair fight and the best man or, rather, girl won?
- Ellen Pierce: I made a mistake coming here. I assure you I never will again.
- Maud Redwick: You needn't.
- Ellen Pierce: [joyously taking in the winter scenery] Oh, it's not real. I'm not real. Nothing's real!
- Dan I. Pierce: I am!
- Ellen Pierce: Oh, yes, you are. Thank heavens you are!
- Maud Redwick: [to Ellen] That's why you're really here, isn't it? 'Cause the year's dragging out fast. Only a couple of months left and you're scared to death. Well, Ellen, do you think I've given up?
- Ellen Pierce: I think you must be out of your mind. I feel sorry for you, Maud.