- Lawrence Kirbridge: [to Elizabeth] You should never think of parents as real people. It only worries them and confuses them.
- Henrietta Winchmore: Maybe you're not quite as bad as you seem.
- Richard Bellamy: [laughs] Funny, I was just thinking exactly the same thing about you.
- Elizabeth Bellamy: I wish I were Henrietta. She is always so sure of everything.
- Lawrence Kirbridge: Aren't you sure of everything?
- Elizabeth Bellamy: I'm not sure of anything... At least I 'm very sure of things but never of people.
- Lawrence Kirbridge: And I'm sure of people and never of things.
- Elizabeth Bellamy: You didn't mean that. You only said it because it was a good answer.
- Lawrence Kirbridge: [Dejectedly] You know, sometimes I don't think I mean anything.