- [first lines]
- Dr. Dwight Enys: Have you been drinking?
- Francis Poldark: It's the custom on election night.
- Francis Poldark: Are you a fatalist, Dwight?
- Dr. Dwight Enys: Are we going to have a philosophical discussion, or have you a more personal reason for asking? thatquestion?
- Francis Poldark: Are we the masters of the dance or merely puppets do you think?
- Francis Poldark: [Making toast] Well, here's to the Devil... God knows whose side he was on tonight... and God knows whose side he'll be on tomorrow.
- Dr. Dwight Enys: Perhaps you didn't drink enough. Perhaps you should have gotten twice as drunk and slept it off. A pistol ball is very dramatic.
- Francis Poldark: A pistol ball, doctor, has no morning after.