- Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill: Papa, if he loves me, why do you object?
- Leonard Jerome: Because I'm not having any damned English Duke telling me that my daughter isn't good enough for his idle, wastrel son, that's why! It's all off - the whole thing.
- Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill: Papa - no one's going to stop me. Not even you.
- Leonard Jerome: The English are so damned prejudiced against Americans that only love could overcome it, or money!
- Duchess of Marlborough: It's quite out of the question.
- Lord Randolph Churchill: I shall be the judge of that, Mamma.
- Duchess of Marlborough: You've only known the girl a week on your own admission. Who is she?
- Lord Randolph Churchill: Her name is Jeanette Jerome.
- Duchess of Marlborough: I know that. Who is she?