- Janie Conway: Elsbeth, where's some of your little friends, dear?
- Elsbeth Conway: I haven't got any friends, I'm anti-social!
- Charles Conway: What is that horrible music?
- Elsbeth Conway: It's the "I-Met-You-On-The-Downbeat-But-I'm-On-The-Upbeat-Now Blues."
- Janie Conway: [Janie and her father discussing her having gone to a "blanket party"] Let's get one thing straight, Dad - Scooper Nolan and I did not commit murder. We merely smooched.
- Charles Conway: Don't say that word again!
- Janie Conway: Well, you've got to call it something. What did you call it in your day?
- Charles Conway: Hmm? Oh, ohh, I don't remember. Spooning, muzzling, bunny-hugging, or something like that.
- Janie Conway: What's the difference between a muzzle and a smooch, I'd like to know.
- Charles Conway: About 20 years, young lady. And it was just as objectionable then.
- Janie Conway: You mean to say that you and Mother never muzzled?
- Charles Conway: I mean to say that.
- Janie Conway: Never spooned?
- Charles Conway: Never.
- Janie Conway: Bunny-hugged?
- Charles Conway: [perplexed] No.
- Janie Conway: What on earth *did* you do?
- Charles Conway: We took long walks.
- Janie Conway: Long walks?
- Charles Conway: Yeah.
- Janie Conway: How on earth did you decide that you wanted to get married?
- Charles Conway: Well, we... didn't quite decide. We... just got married.
- Janie Conway: Well, Dad, times have changed, and for the better, too.