- Director: Your dance was terrible!
- Nell: I cannot go on, I'm so tired of it all! Please let me go.
- Director: I will hold you here! Until you decide to marry me...
- Nell: No, no! A thousand times no- you diaper viper!
- Director: So you spurn my offer of riches and fame! Then you'll stay right here and pay and pay and pay!
- Nell: [singing] 'Tis sad when you think of her wasted life, for youth cannot mate with age. / Her beauty was sold, for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a guilded cage.