- Ruth Ellingham: [At a café table] But it isn't your pilfering and your petty meanness that I care about. It's the damage that you can still inflict on Martin.
- Margaret Ellingham: Well, I don't have to stay here to listen to this.
- Ruth Ellingham: Go home, Margaret.
- Margaret Ellingham: [Ready to leave alone] I am Martin's mother. I have every right to be here. You've never had children. You can't possibly understand what you're talking about.
- Ruth Ellingham: Don't forget your grandson!