- Miss Phoebe: We always knew Roger Hamley loved our Molly.
- Miss Browning: We knew no such thing, Phoebe.
- Miss Phoebe: Well, he rode seven miles to bring her a wasp's nest and you don't do that for no reason!
- Roger Hamley: May I come to the house?
- Mr. Gibson: I won't run the risk of infection if you don't mind.
- Roger Hamley: Then I won't see Molly before I leave.
- Mr. Gibson: Oh. So that's how it is.
- Aimée: I think Roger likes you very much.
- Molly Gibson: There was a time we used to be like brother and sister.
- Aimée: No. I don't think so.
- Molly Gibson: It's the one you did a drawing of.
- Roger Hamley: You remember?
- Molly Gibson: Of course I remember. I remember everything you wrote in your letters. How could you think I wouldn't?
- Lady Cumnor: Although there is a general pwejudice against attorneys it may be that your Mr... Henderson is an exception.
- Molly Gibson: Cynthia, don't. Your husband this morning and mine tonight? What do you take him for?
- Cynthia Kirkpatrick: A man.
- Lady Harriet Cumnor: You men concern yourselves with the eternal verities. We women are content to ponder the petty things in life.
- Squire Hamley: Ya know I think it was a strange thing how both you boys picked out girls below you in rank and family, yet neither of you set your fancies on little Molly Gibson. Now there's a lassie who's found her way into my heart.
- Roger Hamley: Molly's like a sister to me.
- Roger Hamley: [Roger to his father] It wasn't really her I loved, I think. A notion of her I dreamed up myself. A kind of hypothetical Cynthia that never was.
- Squire Hamley: I don't see why you don't put up for her still. Don't you think you could like her if you tried?
- Roger Hamley: No need for trying to love her, that's already done. But it's too late, it's too late, she's as good as told me so - it's my own fault!
- Molly Gibson: [Molly to Roger when she sees him for the first time since his return home from Africa] I wondered if I'd recognize you. Papa said you had a beard.
- Roger Hamley: Oh, no, no I don't.
- Dinner guest: [at the dinner table at The Towers] Mr. Hamley, were the natives not dangerous? One hears such stories, do they really eat each other?
- Roger Hamley: Only rarely. The flesh of the European is considered the real delicacy - especially the female!
- Mr. Gibson: Women are queer, unreasoning creatures and just as likely as not to love a man who's been throwing his affection away.
- Roger Hamley: Thank you sir, I see you mean to give me encouragement.
- Mr. Gibson: My encouragement is neither here nor there, for if she can stomach ya, I dare say I can.
- [the scene in the rain]
- Roger Hamley: I couldn't go. I couldn't go without... Molly, do I still have any chance with you?
- Molly Gibson: Yes.
- Roger Hamley: I've been such a fool I know - yes?
- Molly Gibson: Yes!
- Roger Hamley: I had so much I'd prepared to say to you. I should have seen that it was you that I truly loved even before - d'you mean it?
- Molly Gibson: Yes!
- Roger Hamley: I musn't come any closer, I promised your Father.
- Molly Gibson: Yes, I know!
- Roger Hamley: Molly, dear Molly, will you be my wife?
- Molly Gibson: Yes! Yes I will, Yes!
- Claire Gibson: Riches are a great snare you know.
- Mr. Gibson: Be thankful you're spared temptation, my dear.
- Claire Gibson: I can't help but think it was such a pity I was born when I was. I should like to belong to this generation.
- Lord Hollingford: Do you know our guest of honour?
- Molly Gibson: Yes, he's a very old friend.
- Lord Hollingford: Is he very awe-inspiring?
- Molly Gibson: No, not at all. He's very kind and not at all like anyone I know, he gave me a wasps nest as a present once.
- Mrs. Goodenough: I'd hoped to see her dressed a bit grander now she's a fine lady and mistress of Hamley Hall.
- Roger Hamley: My father's very angry with you.
- Molly Gibson: Angry with me?
- Roger Hamley: Only because you came here instead of to us at Hamley.
- Molly Gibson: Well Lady Harriet wanted me and I don't know why but there's no refusing her.
- Squire Hamley: So you've come a-visiting though you've been up with the grand folks. We thought you were going to cut us Miss Molly.
- Molly Gibson: They asked me and I went, now you've asked me and I've come here.
- Squire Hamley: And which do you prefer.
- Molly Gibson: I don't think I should answer that.
- Roger Hamley: Molly, it's the stuff I had sent home from Africa, it's just arrived. I thought you'd be interested.
- Molly Gibson: I am interested.
- Roger Hamley: Well come on then.
- Roger Hamley: Your letters meant so much to me when I was in Africa. I think you took greater pains over them than Cynthia did with hers. It's alright Molly, I can speak about her. It's over. For me as well.
- Aimée: I think Roger likes you very much.
- Molly Gibson: There was a time we were like brother and sister.
- Aimée: No. I don't think so.
- Molly Gibson: You don't understand, he was engaged to my sister, my step-sister.
- Aimée: He made a mistake I think.
- Roger Hamley: Then may I come to the house? Just once?
- Mr. Gibson: No definitely not and there I come in as a doctor as well as a father. No.
- Roger Hamley: Then if I don't come back I shall haunt you for having been so cruel.
- Mr. Gibson: Come, I like that. Give me a wise man of science in love. No-one to beat him for folly.
- Cynthia Kirkpatrick: [dismissing her fiancé] I want to talk to Molly now, not you.
- [to Molly]
- Cynthia Kirkpatrick: What do you think?
- Molly Gibson: Do you like him enough to marry him?
- Cynthia Kirkpatrick: I do. At least, I think I do. I told him I wasn't very constant but he says he likes me the way I am. So you see he has been fairly warned. I think he is a little afraid though, he wants us to be married very soon.
- Lady Harriet Cumnor: How do you think my little protégée is getting on, Mr Hamley?
- Roger Hamley: Very well. She seems exactly the same and yet somehow completely different.
- Lady Harriet Cumnor: Good.
- Roger Hamley: [looking grave] Who is the gentleman with her?
- Lady Harriet Cumnor: My cousin, Sir Charles Morton.
- Roger Hamley: Oh. I see.
- Roger Hamley: Sir Charles Morton. Have you known him long?
- Molly Gibson: No, not long at all. Lady Harriet asked him to take care of me and he does whatever she asks him.