- Mr. Monk: [Noticing that Lord Fawn has replaced them as an invited guest in Glencora's boudoir] The Duchess seems to have rather a full program this evening.
- Barrington Erle: She's a sight too fond of sticking her fork in other people's dinner.
- Mr. Bonteen: If we leave it up to the Irish themselves, Lady Glen, nothing will be done in 10,000 years.
- Lord Brentford: [Talking about Kennedy's fortune] Of course, it comes back to her if he dies first, but madmen never do die. They have nothing to trouble them forever.
- Barrington Erle: Quite frankly, Lady Glen, Finn ain't been showing the right kind of form just lately. Well, it ain't just the right kind of form to get yourself talked about... as a married woman's lover.
- Glencora: [laughs] Don't be such an old woman, Barrington. I don't see why he should be cast aside just because of that.
- [In a stage whisper]
- Glencora: It happens every day!