- Linda Strong: Are you a bachelor?
- Philip Niles: Why, yes.
- Linda Strong: Oh that's too bad, I feel sorry for you.
- Linda Strong: Oh, please don't be. It agrees with me.
- Linda Strong: My Daddy always said a bachelor is a man no woman ever loved enough to rope in.
- Philip Niles: Oh you don't say!
- Linda Strong: Yes, he was a psychologist. He wrote books about it. He always said, a bachelor pretended to be happy, but he was just dying to get caught.
- Philip Niles: You know, you have plenty of charm in your voice. Are you making any plans for the future?
- Linda Strong: Oh yes, I'm making very careful plans; to become a nice old maid, make jams and jellies, sing in a choir, and do good works for the rest of my life in Lilac Valley.
- Philip Niles: May I ask why?
- Linda Strong: Robert Burns said the best laid plans usually get ploughed under. That's what I'm counting on.
- Philip Niles: You're unusual for a girl your age!
- Linda Strong: Why, Mr Caruso, when Juliet was my age, she'd been dead four years.