- Janos Bartok: Oh, wonderful, your grand reception in an alley behind a saloon.
- [sarcastically to Pratt]
- Ernest Pratt: "Glad to be back"? I've been coerced. I'm surrounded. My publisher commits my services to the bank and Siringo... well, he did something that I find completely unforgivable.
- Janos Bartok: He puts his life into your hands?
- Ernest Pratt: Exactly. I hate that.