- Carolyn Muir: I know what you're gonna say. I've heard it over and over before. "Madam, this is not a public tavern. Madam, this house was not leased as an hotel. Madam, I will not have my privacy invaded." Etc., etc. etc., etc. The fact is, Captain, that as long as I pay the rent here, I can invite anyone I choose, to stay as long as I choose. What do you say to that?
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: [spotting a lovely young woman by the car] I say it's not very hospitable of you to leave your guest standing outside all this time.
- Carolyn Muir: Don't you trust me?
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: You're a female. Pandora was a female. Eve was a female. Historically speaking your sex has shown altogether too much blasted curiosity.
- Vanessa Peekskill: [admiring Gull Cottage] Oh, what a lovely place. Ideal for a writer.
- Martha Grant: Yeah. Edgar Allan Poe would have been at home here. Sometimes I think he is.
- [Vanessa sings in another part of the house]
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: My Vanessa used to sing that, too.
- Carolyn Muir: She's a quarter of a tone off.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Her hair is a storm at midnight, he eyes black pearls from the ocean deeps, voice... an angel song in the wind.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Vanessa is obviously oversensitive.
- Carolyn Muir: Oversensitive, perhaps, but not overly perseptive.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Mm?
- Carolyn Muir: Well, that letter couldn't have destroyed your romance with her ancestor. You never mailed it.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Oh, well, that was merely the first draft. Now the second draft, which I did mail, was much more ferocious.
- Carolyn Muir: Oh, I see. Well, that was a good touch, that, uh, quotation about the coward and the brave man.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Yes, I thought so. Uh, Oscar Wilde, wasn't it?
- Carolyn Muir: Yes. It was a line from a poem he wrote about, uh, thirty year after you died.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Blast. Should have thought of that.
- Carolyn Muir: I've had some second thoughts about Gull Cottage.
- Claymore Gregg: Uh-oh, I knew it.
- Carolyn Muir: And I was wondering if I could get out of the lease.
- Claymore Gregg: Absolutely not.
- Carolyn Muir: I think I have a buyer for you.
- Claymore Gregg: How soon can you leave?
- Vanessa Peekskill: [spotting Daniel's portrait] Oh, that must be Captain Gregg.
- Martha Grant: Yep, the old barnacle himself.
- Vanessa Peekskill: Oh, what a magnificent man.
- Carolyn Muir: That's exactly what I said when I first saw him.
- Vanessa Peekskill: He's so fiery, so dynamic-looking.
- Jonathan Muir: He has a temper, too.
- Martha Grant: He must have been quite an ogre from the stories we've heard about him.
- Vanessa Peekskill: Oh, no. No, you're mistaken. These are some letters written by Captain Gregg. They were written more than a century ago, but I just got them.
- Martha Grant: Well, the mail HAS been slow.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Now, Mrs. Muir, I said that Vanessa could stay here as long as she pleased. My house is her house.
- Carolyn Muir: Actually, Captain, your house is MY house.