- Countess Mariani: People from all over the world are coming here and you can't wait to get away. What's the matter with Tahiti?
- Hazard Endicott: Countess, there's nothing the matter with Tahiti. It's wonderful. But, well, I've just had my fill of spear-fishing and moonlit reefs. And I'll be perfectly happy if I never have to see another man lying in a hammock drinking coconut milk.
- Terru: With American girls it's the fashion to be late.
- Kate Bennett: You see, Tavae.
- Tavae: But, Mimi is half-Tahitian. She should be half-ready.
- Mimi Bennett: [enters the scene] I'm *all* ready.
- Hazard Endicott: [singing] Oh, I'm a happy troubadour that's singing in the sun, All I need is sunshine and I'll sing for everyone, I beam with any pretty sunbeam, life is joy, It's funny everybody calls me "Sunny Boy"...
- Hazard Endicott: [singing] You don't have to count sheep, That's for "Little Bo Peep," You can sleep till the sun peeks through, You can dream any dream, For you know that your dreams come true, When you live in a house, In a house of singing bamboo...
- Mimi Bennett: In Tahiti when you feel like doing something, you just do it. It's a custom.
- Hazard Endicott: Oh, it is? What a wonderful custom. I never felt more Tahitian.
- [kisses Mimi on the lips]
- Hazard Endicott: Well, what's the matter, Mimi?
- Mimi Bennett: You were never less Tahitian.
- Hazard Endicott: Well, why?
- Mimi Bennett: Well, it's just not the custom.
- Hazard Endicott: Well, don't they kiss in Tahiti?
- Mimi Bennett: Not like that.
- Hazard Endicott: Well, how do they do it.
- Mimi Bennett: Well, it's - it's - it's like this.
- [places her check next to Hazard's check]
- Hazard Endicott: Yeah, now what?
- Mimi Bennett: And then, like this.
- [places her check next to Hazard's other check]
- Hazard Endicott: Well, now what?
- Mimi Bennett: Now, nothing, according to the league, we've kissed.
- Hazard Endicott: You mean that's all there is? Well, there must be more to it than that.
- Mimi Bennett: That's all.
- Hazard Endicott: Well, then I withdraw my application for membership. This is one custom they handle better in America. Now, don't get me wrong. We were doing fine right up to here.
- Mimi Bennett: Now, wait a second. You don't understand.
- Hazard Endicott: Now, don't turn away. That's where you make your mistake.
- Mimi Bennett: But, Happy.
- [Hazard kisses Mimi on the lips]
- Hazard Endicott: Now, isn't that better?
- Mimi Bennett: Mmm-hmm. Now what?
- Hazard Endicott: Now, we do it again.
- Mimi Bennett: I love it here. This is my home. But, all my life's been one long vacation and I'm bored.
- Mimi Bennett: We take our legends very seriously. As a matter of fact, we've even put them to music.
- [singing]
- Mimi Bennett: Come with me to the sea of the moon, To the sea that was named for the moon, Over the waves of morning blue, Into the evening let me sail with you, To an island that's happy and gay...
- Hazard Endicott: At daybreak, the island rises out of the sea and the moon comes to rest beside it in the water. Right?
- Mimi Bennett: Right.
- Hazard Endicott: And then when evening comes, the moon rises and the island disappears into the sea again.
- Hazard Endicott: [singing] The starlit waters linger in your eyes, Native hills are calling, For them we belong, And we'll cheer each other, With the Pagan love song...