- Eugenia Young: And the daughters, how many of them are there?
- Felix Young: Two - Charlotte and Gertrude.
- Eugenia Young: Are they pretty?
- Felix Young: One of them.
- Eugenia Young: Which one is that?
- Felix Young: Charlotte.
- Eugenia Young: So, you're in love with Gertrude.
- Gertrude: There must be a thousand different ways to be dreary and sometimes I think we make use of them all.
- Felix Young: I've been a loose fish, I've been a fiddler, a painter... an actor. I've been a Bohemian, but in Bohemia, I always passed for a gentleman.
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- Mr. Brand: I'd hoped you were going to church. I wanted to walk with you.
- Gertrude: I'm very obliged to you, but I'm not going to church.
- Mr. Brand: Have you any special reason for not going?
- Gertrude: Yes, Mr Brand.
- Mr. Brand: May I ask what it is?
- Gertrude: Because the sky is so blue.
- Mr. Brand: I've heard of young ladies staying at home for bad weather but never for good.
- Eugenia Young: I see you've arranged your house, your beautiful house, in the... in the Dutch taste.
- Mr. Wentworth: It's a very old house. General Washington once spent a week here.
- Eugenia Young: Oh, I've heard of Washington. My father used to adore him.
- Gertrude: Is she a princess?
- Felix Young: No, they made her a baroness. That's all they could do. Now they want to dissolve her marriage.
- Gertrude: Against her will?
- Felix Young: Against her rights.
- Felix Young: I was born in France and my sister in Vienna.
- Gertrude: So, you're French?
- Felix Young: No. Though I could easily be if you'd like.
- Felix Young: I think that you'll like Mr Acton. He's a man of the world. He has been to China.
- Eugenia Young: A man of the Chinese world? He sounds very interesting.
- Felix Young: I have an idea he brought hom a fortune.
- Eugenia Young: Ah, that's always interesting.