- Agnes Van Rhijn: I'm going up to change.
- Oscar Van Rhijn: I doubt it, Mama. I'd say you'll come down again without having changed at all.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: I'm not concerned with facts. Not if they interfere with my beliefs.
- Oscar Van Rhijn: I give you prejudice in a nutshell.
- Peggy Scott: I don't believe in secrets.
- Marian Brook: Really?
- Peggy Scott: I don't believe in them because they never work. Everything always comes out in the end.
- Marian Brook: You should know. You keep secrets better than most.
- Tom Raikes: And the statue at the top was made by a woman. You'll like that.
- Marian Brook: I do like it. Who was she?
- Tom Raikes: Emma Stebbins, the first woman to receive a sculptural commission in New York City.
- Marian Brook: I hope you just read that in the guidebook.
- Tom Raikes: I did.
- Marian Brook: What a relief. You scared me for a moment.
- Peggy Scott: What will you tell your aunts?
- Marian Brook: I'll say I'm going for a walk and that I've asked you to accompany me.
- Peggy Scott: And you don't mind lying to them?
- Marian Brook: Don't put it like that. I'm just... trying to live my life.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Mrs. Chamberlain's money is tainted.
- Marian Brook: If you were living in one room with neither heat nor water, I'm sure you would not find it so.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: New York is a collection of villages, my dear. We know the people who live in our own village.
- Marian Brook: But not the ones who don't.
- Oscar Van Rhijn: The Russells live in your village, Mama. I could throw a stone from here and break their windows.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Don't tease me.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: While I am struggling, trying to hold back the tide of vulgarians that threatens to engulf us... I feel like King Canute.
- Tom Raikes: When I see what I really want, I take it if I can.
- Marian Brook: I suspect that's something you should try to control if you don't intend to spend time in a police cell.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Life has taught me one thing, Miss Scott. If you don't want to be disappointed, only help those who help themselves.
- Anne Morris: I'm afraid New York can be quite challenging at first.
- Bertha Russell: Can it? We haven't found it so. Have we, George?
- George Russell: There is no challenge you are not equal to, my dear.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Do people like that bring their daughters out? I thought they just sold them to the highest bidder.
- Ada Brook: Or perhaps Oscar might take a shine to her himself.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Take a shine?
- Ada Brook: I only meant she's...
- Agnes Van Rhijn: They are first cousins. And she hasn't a cent. So I'd be grateful if you would keep your servants' hall slang to yourself.
- Marian Brook: They're joining the Dispensary for Poor Women and Children with the Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children and they'll move the whole thing to 7th Street.
- Ada Brook: That's sounds sensible, doesn't it?
- Agnes Van Rhijn: It sounds dull enough to be respectable, at any rate.
- Marian Brook: Wish I understood what brings you to New York.
- Tom Raikes: Simple. I want to be here.
- Marian Brook: And that's enough of a reason?
- Tom Raikes: Course it is. It's always a reason when you want something enough.
- Ada Brook: Agnes, you can't have anything against an innocent young girl.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: I am opposed to her tribe.
- Aurora Fane: I'm sure your father means well, but I'm afraid his generosity will close the bazaar before it's really begun.
- Marian Brook: I don't think he means well at all.
- Larry Russell: No?
- Marian Brook: No. And I don't blame him one little bit.
- Marian Brook: I hope you have plans for tonight.
- Tom Raikes: How could I? I don't know anyone in New York except you.
- Marian Brook: Well, that'll soon change if you come here to live. New York has plenty to offer the new arrival.
- Tom Raikes: But what would I have to offer New York?
- Agnes Van Rhijn: I don't wish her to marry for money. Only to marry for security, support, and, God willing, affection.
- Bertha Russell: How do you know my daughter, sir?
- Oscar Van Rhijn: Well, I don't. Not really. But, uh, I want to. Very much.
- Bertha Russell: We cannot always have what we want.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Marian has no income, and her birth... thanks to her mother... is not impeccable. In short, without a decent marriage, she will be lost.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Oh, if you ask me, he's a shyster with neither background nor fortune. It's obvious. He sees her as a ticket out of Doylestown.
- George Russell: But there are no objections?
- Patrick Morris: No, not to the plan.
- George Russell: Only to me.
- Patrick Morris: I'm afraid they're very snobbish, Mr. Russell.
- George Russell: Are they? Well, maybe they're right to be.
- Patrick Morris: Your coachman let me wait in here. I said you were expecting me.
- George Russell: Is that so? I must teach him to be more circumspect in the future.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Mrs. Chamberlain has things, terrible things, in her past, which render her unsuitable as an acquaintance for any well-brought-up young lady.
- Gladys Russell: He wanted me to join them for dinner, but, of course, it was out of the question.
- Marian Brook: How strange these rules are. Why shouldn't you go out to dinner with your brother and a friend? What could be more normal?
- Gladys Russell: Not to my mother.
- Ada Brook: All we both want is your happiness. You may disagree with us. But that is all we want. Please remember it.