- Antony Baekeland: [Tony quoting something his grandfather used to say] "One of the uses of money is that it allows us not to live with the consequences of our mistakes."
- Barbara Baekeland: Did you come?
- Antony Baekeland: No.
- Barbara Baekeland: [pause] We can do something about that
- [proceeds to - be inferred - masturbates him = own son! After short time, both sitting on settee]
- Barbara Baekeland: You are the best. You are
- [first lines]
- Antony Baekeland: I was eating a tomato at tea time a few weeks ago, and I suddenly realized that mommy is not dead at all. Just very, very mysterious.
- Antony Baekeland: I have so much in my head that to let it out would surely kill me. Nevertheless, I feel better now. And even feel that a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
- Barbara Baekeland: Monsieur Souvestre, permettez-moi de vous presenter mons fils, Tony.
- Barbara Baekeland: [excitedly, to Brooks] Did I get it right? Did I get the order right?
- Brooks Baekeland: [coldly] The younger is presented to the older, the less distinguished to the more so; the exception to the rule: the gentleman is always presented to the lady; the exception to the exception, unless the man is a President, a cardinal, or a reigning sovereign.
- Antony Baekeland: I think he's writing us a letter. I think he's writing us a letter but in another alphabet, in Baekeland writing no-one else can read.
- Barbara Baekeland: Did you come?
- Antony Baekeland: No.
- Barbara Baekeland: We can do something about that.
- Barbara Baekeland: You're the best. You are. You're the best.