Joanne Woodward credited as playing...
Mary St. John
- Alfred Eaton: My manners are just a little rusty. You're the first girl I've danced with for a long time.
- Mary St. John: Oh? Well, why didn't you bestow that honor on someone inside instead of out here on the terrace?
- Alfred Eaton: Oh, I don't know. I rather like the view from the terrace. And then I saw you and I suddenly liked the view even more.
- Mary St. John: You've touched me deeply.
- Alfred Eaton: But not in the right places.
- Alfred Eaton: Incidentally, just where did you wear that little number until 2:00 this morning?
- Mary St. John: I wore this little number to the Mona Lisa.
- [She takes his champagne glass that he had been drinking from]
- Mary St. John: Would you unzip me in the back, please?
- Alfred Eaton: I thought Sage didn't like that place anymore.
- Mary St. John: Oh, Sage wasn't along. She stayed home with a bad tooth or something.
- Alfred Eaton: What, just you and her husband?
- Mary St. John: Just little old us.
- Alfred Eaton: Can't you do any better than that?
- Mary St. John: As a matter of fact, I could have, but unfortunately he had another date, with the Dingham Report.
- Alfred Eaton: Dunham.
- Mary St. John: Oh, so sorry, Dunham
- Mary St. John: Well... and what does she call you?
- Alfred Eaton: Huh?
- Mary St. John: Miss, um... Benziger. She calls me Mrs. Eaton and you call her Natalie, but she doesn't call you anything. Aren't you Mr. Eaton or Alfred?
- Alfred Eaton: As a matter of fact, I'm Calvin Coolidge but she doesn't know that.
- Mary St. John: Yes. She has something I haven't got - niceness. But then I have something she hasn't got.
- Alfred Eaton: Me?
- Mary St. John: No. Honesty and guts. She has no guts.
- Alfred Eaton: Well, that was reasonably disagreeable, wasn't it.
- Mary St. John: Yes, and it was so easy.
- Alfred Eaton: Would you like to go upstairs and cry or something?
- Mary St. John: No, but I wouldn't mind if you faded away into the sunset.
- Sage Rimmington: Oh, I'm curious. What does success look like when you turn off the lights?
- Mary St. John: Oh, you're so impossible, Sage! You know that?
- Sage Rimmington: I say if work is a man's mistress, then there's only one answer for the wife - another man!
- Mary St. John: I knew you were going to kiss me today but I didn't know I was going to kiss you back, and it isn't going to happen again, so don't try to get me off alone somewhere.
- Alfred Eaton: I think you'd like that.
- Alfred Eaton: I know you've come to congratulate me. Thank you very much my...
- Mary St. John: You're making a fool of yourself.
- Alfred Eaton: Oh, that was terribly considerate of you last night when you were telling me about the quote "beautiful relationship we could have" end quote, but you never bothered mentioning anything about the partnership, because maybe I would've thought the partnership had something to do with your new found if somewhat unwholesome interest in our marriage.
- Mary St. John: [while Alfred is walking briskly away] Alfred. Alfred, I want to talk to you.
- Alfred Eaton: Any further communicatoin between you and me will be through legal channels.
- Mary St. John: All right, go to her, but it won't do you any good.
- Alfred Eaton: If she's foolish enough to still have me, nothing will stop me from spending the rest of my life with her.
- Mary St. John: Well I'm going to stop you, because I'll never give you a divorce.
- Alfred Eaton: Wait till you see the the little collection of photographs our friend Creighton Duffy will release for public consumption.
- Mary St. John: What photographs?
- Alfred Eaton: You won't be able to show your face in this entire city if you don't give me a divorce. How do you like them apples?
- Alfred Eaton: [begin dancing] Thought I might as well start at the top.
- Mary St. John: Did you?
- Alfred Eaton: Pretty close to it.
- Mary St. John: Thanks for the compliment. Who are you?
- Mary St. John: Good night, Mr. Eaton.
- Alfred Eaton: Good night, Miss St. John. All yours, Doctor.
- Dr. Jim Roper: I know that.
- Alfred Eaton: I used to live very close to there, Port Johnson, Pennsylvania.
- Mary St. John: Oh? I thought you lived in New York, in Gramercy Park with Lex and all the stray girls you could lay your hands on - or so they tell me.
- [kiss]
- Mary St. John: I don't even know why you bother talking to me, because every time you do, you get sarcastic and we end up having a fight. Now, if you don't approve of me, why don't you just leave me alone. I'm sure I won't perish from unhappiness.
- Mary St. John: A man, Sage. A delicious man and all man - from the top of his head to the tip of his toes.
- Dr. Jim Roper: Does he know you the way I do? Does he know that wild and wonderful nature of yours?
- Mary St. John: I think you'd better leave.