Kim Novak credited as playing...
Mrs. Carlyle 'Carly' Hardwicke
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: To put it plainly, Mr. Gridley, I have a dubious reputation.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: You do?
- [knowing the asking price was 40 pounds]
- William 'Bill' Gridley: I'll pay you 45 pounds a month.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Not that kind of dubious.
- Flower Woman: You're a lucky woman ma'am, to have such a thoughtful husband.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Oh, he's not my husband.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: No, we just live together.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: First, I'd like to talk to you about signing a hundred year lease.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: That's fine with me if you pay in advance.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke, William 'Bill' Gridley: I like dancing with you.
- [laugh]
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: You didn't learn to mambo like this in Saudi Arabia.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: No, South America. Student riot.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Hmmm?
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Well, you had to move something or everything was over.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: [pretending to be the maid] In there's the bedroom.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Yeah, that certainly is, isn't it. Is she, your employer, due back soon?
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Oh, any bloomin' minute, now!
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Do you sleep in?
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: In and out, off and on,
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Catch as catch can.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: You might call it that.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Look, Mrs. Hardwicke, I appeal to you as a fellow American. Don't I appeal to you? Huh?
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: [hands Gridley the flat keys] It's your funeral. I might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Well, yes. Mrs. H, you made a wise decision.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: I hope so.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: [pretending to be the maid] Per'aps it'll be all right to just look.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Good girl.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: But don't get your 'opes up. She won't let you 'ave it.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Oh, isn't this very nice. Hey, immaculate. I guess that's thanks to you. Mrs Hardwicke's lucky to have you. Anybody'd be lucky to have you.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: What do you say we have our first drink up in my remarkable new flat?
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Hmm. Jolly good idea. Especially sense you've got the only bottle of Scotch. I found it when I was unpacking your things. They do that in England, you know.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Oh, do they, now?
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: I hope I did this right.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Its impossible for you to do anything wrong.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Why don't we wait and see.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: You're bound to be a very successful diplomat.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Well, behind every man's success there's a woman like you - if, the man is lucky.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: And what do you know about me? Maybe I could ruin you.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Well, I'm willing to make allowances. After all, compromise is the cornerstone of diplomacy.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Tell me, what about you is so dangerous?
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Nothing - tonight.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Bill, what will you do at the Embassy?
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Oh, I'll probably spend most of my time getting reservations on ships an planes for VIPs and arrange their visas and I'll be checking tariff schedules on *fascinating* things, like hemp, tennis balls. And then I'll just move on to become Secretary of State. I figure I'm too old to be President.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Oh, well I better hang onto your bed. Someday I can say William Gridley slept here.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: It certainly is convenient, isn't it? Living in the same house. I mean, it saves cab fare and all that.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Here you are. Delivered safely.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: You're dropping me at my door?
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Eh-hmm.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Well, how are you going to get home?
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Well, I'll feel my way.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Miles never cared for American food. He never liked anything but Brussels sprouts, kippers or kidney pie.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Gee, I used to play a little drums when I was in college. Maybe sometime we could - you do this very often at night?
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: No, not often.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: I wouldn't mind. I love organ music.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: To me there's something about the tone that's almost like the sound of eternity.
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Yeah. Do you know "My Funny Valentine"?
- William 'Bill' Gridley: Maybe they think we're burning state secrets.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Or, little witches.
- Franklyn Ambruster: Your photographs don't really do you justice.
- Mrs. Carlyle Hardwicke: Well, the lighting's not terribly good in police stations.