- Stanley Banks: [Telephone rings at night] Hello. Buckley, do you know what time it is? It's a quarter to three.
- Buckley Dunstan: I'm sorry, I didn't realize. Is Kay there?
- Stanley Banks: [Sarcastically] But of course she, where would she be?
- [Whispers]
- Stanley Banks: Hello, I'll take this downstairs, hang on
- [Puts down the receiver & quietly tiptoes downstairs to hall, then picks up the extension phone]
- Stanley Banks: What do you mean, is she here?
- Buckley Dunstan: Well, I thought if she were there I could come and pick her up if she were there.
- Stanley Banks: When did she leave? What time did she leave?
- Buckley Dunstan: I don't know, I've been out for a few hours, I just got back a little while ago.
- Stanley Banks: What was it, a fight?
- [Long pause]
- Stanley Banks: DID you have a FIGHT?
- Buckley Dunstan: We had an argument, yes. Look if anything happens to her, I'll kill myself.
- Stanley Banks: Don't worry, I'll do it for you. Did she take anything, a bag or anything?
- Buckley Dunstan: She took her hatbox, umbrella and toilet case and a toothbrush.
- Stanley Banks: Don't worry about it, then, if she took her toothbrush, she's not headed for the river.
- Stanley Banks: Now look, Ellie, I know how anxious you've been to get your hooks into that baby, but the answer is NO. I've been through all that, you know, the 2:00 feedings, the colic and the measles and all the rest of it, I'm not going through all of it again, especially with somebody else's baby.
- Ellie Banks: [plaintively] It wouldn't be like that, Stanley, it'll be fun to have a baby
- Stanley Banks: You can go over and see the baby at their apartment when they get it all washed and ironed, but it's not coming here and THAT'S FINAL!
- Stanley Banks: [after someone called him 'Grampa' at the announcement event] Somewhere there was a fly in the ointment... Grampa, that was the fly. Grampa.
- Stanley Banks: I couldn't remember what was immediately in my rear. I began to explore. I didn't want to trip or fall. People are so quick to attribute such things to alcohol.
- Stanley Banks: I couldn't help feeling we were ganging up on him, pinning the name of Herbert on a poor, defenseless child.