- Keenan: Aww, now wait a minute. Are you trying to tell me that this Professor Lorenz is a hypnotist as well as a horticulturist?
- Dr. Foster: These young girls, whether dead or alive, are being used by Lorenz in some manner as human guinea pigs to sustain his wife in a youthful state.
- Keenan: Oh, that's preposterous.
- Patricia Hunter: It's nothing of the kind. Scientists are finding out every day that glands and hormones have a lot to do with life and health.
- Dr. Foster: The glands in our bodies help to determine the condition of our teeth, the texture of our hair.
- Countess Lorenz: Can you bear to look at me now?
- Dr. Lorenz: Of course. You are beautiful. And I shall always keep you that way.
- Patricia Hunter: Oh, Professor, do you also make a hobby of collecting coffins?
- Dr. Lorenz: Why yes, in a manner of speaking. I find a coffin much more comfortable than a bed. Many people do so, my dear. Is it so strange, that I accept one while waiting for eternal rest?
- Dr. Foster: Why don't you try to go back to sleep? No one's going to harm you. I'm sure it was just a nightmare.
- Patricia Hunter: I think this whole place is a nightmare. Professor Lorenz and his wife were actually sleeping in coffins, I saw them!
- Dr. Foster: We often find it difficult to explain the peculiarities of some people.
- Patricia Hunter: I guess so.
- Dr. Foster: Good evening, Professor Lorenz, Countess. May I present Miss Patricia Hunter?
- Patricia Hunter: How do you do?
- Dr. Lorenz: We have been expecting you.
- Patricia Hunter: So you found my bag in your truck?
- Dr. Lorenz: Yes. There it is.
- Dr. Foster: Miss Hunter's a newspaperwoman.
- Patricia Hunter: I came here hoping you might grant me an interview.
- Dr. Lorenz: An interview? About what?
- Countess Lorenz: No one asked you to come here. You're not welcome!
- [She slaps Patricia]
- Dr. Lorenz: Control yourself, my dear! I'm sure Miss Hunter meant no harm. Please forgive my wife, she is not well. Come, you had better retire.
- [the Lorenzes exit]
- Patricia Hunter: [to Foster] So that's what you call being eccentric. Well I have another name for it.
- Dr. Foster: [Foster finds Patricia unconscious on the floor] Pat! Pat, Pat.
- Keenan: Is she dead?
- Keenan, Patricia Hunter: No, just scared to death.
- [She and Foster embrace]
- Keenan: All right. Break it up, we've got headlines to write.
- Patricia Hunter: Do I get a byline?
- Keenan: After this you can have a clothesline, with my shirt on it.
- Fagah: Why do you beat my son so hard?
- Dr. Lorenz: Because he's at best an animal, and some day I shall have to destroy him.
- Fagah: My poor son!... Why was he ever born?
- Countess Lorenz: She's a most unusual type. Such fascinating eyes.
- Dr. Lorenz: She'll make a charming addition to our family.
- Countess Lorenz: June Twentieth...
- Dr. Lorenz: A date we shall not forget.
- Patricia Hunter: What do you want?
- Countess Lorenz: Yes, you are beautiful.
- Patricia Hunter: How did you get in here?
- Countess Lorenz: So young. Such lovely skin. Sometime you too will be a bride!