- Reporter: [on the phone at police station, talking to his editor] Dame in bed, shot by husband... now wait a minute, George, you can't have everything. The motive was revenge... no, George, no, no society angle. The dame has a police record and her husband is an escaped convict. The cops caught up with him and he tried to shoot his way out. No, no, I can't interview him, George... well, for one thing he's dead. Was she good lookin'? Not when I got there.
- James Randolph: Marcia... how long are you going to hold out on me?
- Marcia Manning: [plays with ring on her finger] How long you going to hold out on me?
- James Randolph: I thought you said it was after business hours.
- Marcia Manning: Sorry, Jim, but you see to me love is a luxury... something to forget about until I have security and can afford it.
- James Randolph: You sound like an investment broker.
- Marcia Manning: I suppose you want me to be romantic, like the songs about living on love and pale moonlight... that's all nonsense, Jim.
- James Randolph: Seems to work all right for some women.
- Marcia Manning: I know how it works, my mother tried it. When I was a kid I saw her waste her life fighting hunger and poverty... by the time she was 35 she was an old woman, left with *nothing*. 'Cept of course pale moonlight... that's not going to happen to me Jim, uhn-uh. That's why I want money and the security that comes with marriage. Then I... then I can afford the *luxury* of love.