- Loxi: [rehearsing] Of course, Commodore Devereaux, you need a mighty experienced captain to navigate a fine ship like the Southern Cross - steam and all that!
- Maum Maria: That ain't got no elegance. You's in Charleston. Ladies don't tell gentlemens, they asks 'em!
- Loxi: Where is Captain Jack?
- Capt. Phillip Philpott: He's on a diving job. He'll be back this afternoon
- [chuckle]
- Capt. Phillip Philpott: if his hat didn't leak!
- Drusilla Alston: Cousin Loxi, I think you're so brave going out to that wreck!
- Maum Maria: Brave? Fiddle-dee-dee! She's just pigheaded!