- Miss Lilly Moffat: I have never spoken to a man for more than five minutes in my life without wanting to box his ears.
- Miss Lilly Moffat: [reading] ... and when I walk in the dark I can touch with my hands where the corn is green.
- Miss Lilly Moffat: [to Miss Ronberry] You live alone. You have just enough money. You are not badly educated. And time lies heavy on your hands. Isn't that so?
- Miss Ronberry: Not at all. When the proper gentleman appears...
- Miss Lilly Moffat: Oh, no Miss Ronberry, if you're a spinster well on in her thirties, he's lost his way and isn't coming. Why don't you face the fact and enjoy life the way I do?
- Miss Ronberry: When did you give up hope?
- [Gasps]
- Miss Ronberry: Oh, what a horrid expression!
- Miss Lilly Moffat: Well, I can't recall ever having had any hope. Visitors used to take a long look at my figure and say, she is going to be the clever one.
- Miss Ronberry: Do you not miss her?
- Mrs. Watty: No. I don't like her, you know. Never have.
- Miss Ronberry: Why, Mrs. Watty, your own daughter?
- Mrs. Watty: I know. But I've never been able to take to her. First time I saw her I said "No"!