- Victoria Winters: My name is Victoria Winters. The dark night presses in on the crest of Widows' Hill as though it were alive. I can almost feel it crushing against the windows, whispering to me, telling me to run while I can. But I've come too far and waited too long, and the fear of darkness is only for children.
- Roger Collins: Elizabeth, I'm going to fight every way I can. But please understand this. It may be an unpleasant fact, but it's true. I'm not Isaac. I'm not Jeremiah. I'm not any of them. I'm me, Roger Collins, and I'm going to fight my way.
- Carolyn Stoddard: He's really a very nice guy, Vicki. But he's had a rough time. You don't know how rough. A wife who- Well, the less said about her, the better.
- Victoria Winters: I thought his wife was dead.
- Carolyn Stoddard: You thought wrong. And then there's David. A kid like that would make anybody's nerves pop, but you'll find out about him tomorrow.
- Victoria Winters: Then why tell me now?
- Carolyn Stoddard: Because I want you to understand Uncle Roger. Like I said, he's really a very nice guy. But right now he's a little bit upset.
- Victoria Winters: Carolyn, what are you getting at?
- Carolyn Stoddard: He wants to talk to you.
- Victoria Winters: Now?
- Carolyn Stoddard: Oh, it's nothing to worry about. Uncle Roger just wants to ask you a few questions. And like I already told you, he's such a...
- Victoria Winters: I know, he's such a nice person. But it's almost midnight.
- Carolyn Stoddard: Oh, that's the point!
- [teasing]
- Carolyn Stoddard: At the stroke of twelve he turns into Dracula.
- Roger Collins: Miss Winters, you wouldn't mind keeping a lonely man company for a little while longer, would you?
- Victoria Winters: Well, it's awfully late, and I...
- Roger Collins: Five minutes, ten? No longer, I promise you. I'm really quite a nice fellow.
- [turning to Elizabeth]
- Roger Collins: Good night, Elizabeth, and don't worry. I promise to be on my very best behavior.
- Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: Roger, I don't like...
- Roger Collins: Sleep well, dear.
- Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: Good night, Miss Winters.