Ruby Dee credited as playing...
Female
- Female: Paul, he's dead? Then you have no one.
- Irena Gallier: Who am I? What am I?
- Female: Shh. Don't ask what you already know.
- Irena Gallier: Know? Female, I don't know. I-- I don't know where to go.
- Female: Live as he did-- hidden, in jails. Never love. Pretend the world is what men think it is.
- Irena Gallier: Wait! Don't leave me like this. I don't know where to go.
- Female: It doesn't matter where you go, does it?
- Female: I was sleeping. I didn't hear anything.
- Detective Brandt: Are you sure? Hmm? What about the basement? I suppose you don't know anything about the basement either, hmm?
- Female: Basement? Oh, I don't go there.
- Female: Ah! You're here at last. I'm so glad. Oh, let me look at you. Let me look at you. Oh! Your hair is so pretty. Is that how they're doing their hair now?
- Paul Gallier: Female, this is my sister, Irena.
- Female: I can see that. I'd known those Gallier eyes anywhere. Oh, Paul, she's a lovely, lovely little thing. Your brother is driving me crazy waiting for you.
- Paul Gallier: Do I get the credit for that? Female keeps me out of trouble.
- Female: That's a full-time job, honey. You better believe it.
- Irena Gallier: Fem...
- Female: Female. Female. Like "tamale." F-E-M-A-L-E. See, I was orphaned too. You like this house? So, they didn't know what name to put on the birth certificate, so they just put child, female. Now, the woman that raised me, God rest her soul, she didn't read English too good... so she pronounced it "Femally." So, here I am-- female. Female. Female. Female.
- Paul Gallier: Fate wrenched us apart as children. Thy mercy restored us here today. And for this mending, we thank thee, Lord. Amen.
- Female: Amen.
- Irena Gallier: Amen.
- Female: [serving dinner] Watch out. This is hot.
- Irena Gallier: Oh! I forgot to call the Robinsons.
- Paul Gallier: What?
- Irena Gallier: I'm sorry.
- Paul Gallier: Why do you have to call now?
- Irena Gallier: Well, they care about me.
- Paul Gallier: Sit down, sit down, sit down. You can call after dinner. This is Female's special gumbo. Special gumbo tonight from yesterday's chicken.
- Female: That's right. That's right.
- Irena Gallier: I just-- I just didn't want them to worry about me. They've been really nice. You'd like them. Janice works at the nursery school, at least part-time. She has three children. And Arnold is from the C.P.A., you know? He's extremely mellow. The only time he loses his temper is about April the 15th. And then he...
- Paul Gallier: Did they ever tell you how our parents died?
- Irena Gallier: Yes.
- Paul Gallier: What did they tell you about me?
- Irena Gallier: Oh, I don't know. Not much. I mean, I knew I had a brother, but I was only four. Mmm. I used to fantasize about you... when I was in the orphanage.
- Paul Gallier: Fantasize?
- Irena Gallier: Well, you know, about you coming to rescue me and things.
- Paul Gallier: Hmm.
- Irena Gallier: Daydreams.
- Paul Gallier: Yes, I had the same dreams.