- Mary Norton: Oh, William Halliwell Magee? Do you know, I've read every book you ever wrote.
- Thomas Hayden: Oh, my gosh!
- Mary Norton: And loved every one of them.
- William Halliwell Magee: [Magee has been pooh-poohing the idea of love at first sight until introduced to Mary Norton] You're wonderful. I mean... uh... that's wonderful.
- Mary Norton: How did you get in here without this key?
- William Halliwell Magee: Hmph... yours is the only key to Baldpate in existence, I suppose.
- Mary Norton: So I understand.
- William Halliwell Magee: I see. Well if it's any news to you ladies, there are more keys to Baldpate than you can find in a grand piano.