- Hilda Crocker: [hanging up the telephone and walking to the couch, where Hilda has placed some items] Well, Hilda. What have you got there?
- Hilda Crocker: My contribution to the Youth Foundation
- Lily Ruskin: Well, you could have brought those things next summer.
- Hilda Crocker: No, I've given up the beach. It's too discouraging.
- Lily Ruskin: Discouraging?
- Hilda Crocker: The last time I was there, the only thing that whistled at me was a tugboat.
- Ruth Henshaw: [upon coming down the stairs] Hi, Pete
- Pete Porter: Hi
- Ruth Henshaw: How's Gladys feeling?
- Pete Porter: Oh, the little expectant mother is giving me a lot of trouble today.
- Lily Ruskin: Is anything wrong?
- Pete Porter: Well, the baby isn't due for six and a half months, but Gladys wants $400 for new clothes
- Hilda Crocker: Well, in her condition, she's entitled to something special.
- Pete Porter: Yeah, but who ever heard of a maternity mink stole?