- Frank Carteret: It's amazing! The things people ask of love. They expect it to protect them, keep them from being bored, make them work harder. In fact , they want everything except love.
- Cicely Hunt Tyler: If it hadn't been for Kit, I don't think I would have been altogether faithful to your memory.
- Christopher Tyler: You know. I had made up my mind I wasn't going to ask you that. I was never so glad to hear anything in my life.