- Marian Brook: [Marian races in to intercept Mr Russell before he delivers her departure missives to Agnes and Ada]
- [flustered]
- Marian Brook: Am I too late?
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Heavens, is there a fire?
- Ada Brook: [shocked] Marian, you're back!
- Agnes Van Rhijn: [looking to each in the room] Too late for what? Why shouldn't she be back? What's going on?
- Larry Russell: [Looks at Marian, confused]
- Ada Brook: [to Marian] How was your day?
- Marian Brook: Not all it could have been - Mr Russell, how kind of you to come by.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: You were saying, you were here on a mission, Mr Russell? Does it concern those envelopes?
- Marian Brook: *No*.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: *What*?
- Marian Brook: I'm sure Mr Russell went out to catch the evening post, and thought he'd look in to see how you are - isn't that so, Mr Russell?
- Larry Russell: [catching on] Absolutely - but now it's clear you're both as well as I could hope, so I'll be on my way...
- Ada Brook: ...to the mailbox.
- Marian Brook: Isn't that nice... I'll see you out.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: I feel as if I I'd been watching a play in a foreign language.
- Ada Brook: They're young.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Is that an observation or an excuse?
- Bertha Russell: I'm taking a chance, George, I know that. But who ever achieved great things without taking a chance?
- George Russell: His wife has tracked him down.
- Bertha Russell: And she wants money?
- George Russell: Worse. She wanted a reconciliation.
- George Russell: He left the ship in France, found a job washing dishes at a restaurant in Cannes. He trained there. But when he got back to New York, he discovered that nobody wanted a cook from Wichita. They were all looking for a chef from gay Paris.
- Monsieur Baudin: Is Mrs. Russell content to have a chef from Wichita, Kansas?
- Bertha Russell: Couldn't we just call it the Middle West?
- Tom Raikes: And I meant it when I said I love you.
- Marian Brook: I believe you. But love is not always enough.
- Ward McAllister: They'll make decent marriages without our help. They're good-looking, and they smell of money... The sweetest scent I know.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: You are glad to be ordered to march into hell and to dance with the devil?
- Ada Brook: I wonder sometimes if you don't slightly overstate your arguments. We cannot be forced to dance.
- Larry Russell: This is a great city in a great country at a great time in our history. I want to be part of it, Father.
- Jack Treacher: You wish you'd been invited?
- Bridget: I suppose. What about you?
- Jack Treacher: Maybe we will be one day. After all, this is America.
- Mrs. Astor: Didn't it ever worry you that I might decide to destroy you after this evening? Because I could, if I chose.
- George Russell: There is one more thing... an invitation to a ball my wife is giving this evening... For you and Mrs. Cuyper. I look forward to seeing you there.
- Julius Cuyper: Alas, with no warning, I'm not sure our diaries will allow it.
- George Russell: I've not made myself clear. I will see you there if you want the loan.
- Julius Cuyper: You can't be serious.
- George Russell: Don't think you can go elsewhere. I have a list of reasons why not to invest in your bank, and I will send it to anyone you approach.
- Julius Cuyper: Isn't that against the law?
- George Russell: Let's find out.
- Julius Cuyper: You are not a gentleman, sir.
- George Russell: That's a subject for another time.
- Julius Cuyper: Very well. I will attend. But I cannot promise that my wife will.
- George Russell: The loan hinges on her presence.
- Julius Cuyper: But suppose she is engaged tonight?
- George Russell: I am sure, when you explain the situation, she will find that she can join us after all.
- Adelheid: If you're not Monsieur Baudin, why are you still talking like him?
- Monsieur Baudin: Because this is who I have been for years. And now it's hard to break the habit.
- Church: If your name is Josh Borden and you come from Wichita, I think you've got to try.
- Bertha Russell: Well, I'm sorry, George, but we cannot have a chef from Kansas. We'd be a laughingstock.
- George Russell: But if the food's the same...
- Bertha Russell: You don't know the women of New York. They're all looking for something about us to ridicule. And when they hear that we were taken in, we'd be providing it on a plate, literally.
- Oscar Van Rhijn: You're sorry she's gone, Mama. Why don't you admit it?
- Agnes Van Rhijn: My secretary has handed in her notice. What more is there to say?
- Oscar Van Rhijn: That you're sad about it.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Very well. I'm sad. She was a great help to me. Now are you satisfied?
- Larry Russell: How do you feel? About Mr. Raikes?
- Marian Brook: I'm not sure. Rather numb, really.
- Larry Russell: Numb is good. Just look after yourself when it wears off.