Lieutenant Tony Willett: Now I don't want to shock you, but it's no wonder those Italians can paint. There was a dame standing right in the middle of the street with a big tub of spaghetti, and she had - she had -
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Now never mind what she had. I have a little imagination.
Lieutenant Tony Willett: Yeah. Well, even as I looked at her, I thought, "She's good, but what are they all? What are all the women in the world compared with Anne?"
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Tony, will you never stop?
Lieutenant Tony Willett: No, I'll never stop, Anne. As long as I can dream about you.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: If you ever thought the dream had a chance of coming true, you'd -
Lieutenant Tony Willett: I'd what, Anne?
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Finish it yourself.
Lieutenant Tony Willett: You make it pretty tough for me. I'd feel I'd been wrong about you all my life. I'd have to go looking for a new ideal. I'm afraid it's a little late for that.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: What's more, you'd run for your life. But first you'd wring my neck, as I'd expect you to.
Lieutenant Tony Willett: That's right, and what would be the fun in that? I'd never be able to break my heart over you anymore.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Oh, Tony. Never grow up. Never, never. Or I'd lose something very dear to me. Something very dear to all of us.
Lieutenant Tony Willett: All right, but I'm going to sound awful silly someday making verbal passes at you when we're both in wheelchairs.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: [laughing] You are looking forward to that.

Sailor Harold E. Smith: You know, I've never been to the beach in my whole life.
Jane Deborah Hilton: I've never seen the ocean.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: You haven't?
Sailor Harold E. Smith: I never saw it till a couple of months ago.
Jane Deborah Hilton: But you're a sailor.
Sailor Harold E. Smith: I was brought up on a farm.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Oh, I see.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: I've never been on a farm.
Jane Deborah Hilton: You haven't?
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: I was brought up on an Army post.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Oh, I see.

Mrs. Anne Hilton: [Brig is sleeping on the elderly woman on train] I'm afraid she's awfully heavy for you.
Elderly Woman on Train: Oh, no. She's so like my granddaughter. I love holding her.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Is she about the same age?
Elderly Woman on Train: No. Mary is almost 30 now. She's a nurse. Here, let me show you her picture.
[opens a locket around her neck]
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Oh, she's pretty! Where is she now?
Elderly Woman on Train: I really don't know. You see, she was at Corregidor.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Oh, I'm so sorry.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Mother, won't you let me do something now? Can't I -
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Oh, Jane, please, darling, not again. I'm so hot and so tired.
Jane Deborah Hilton: But just for the summer, Mother. I could be a nurse's aide, maybe.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: All right, Jane.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Oh, gee, Mother, that's swell!
Mrs. Anne Hilton: But remember now, just for the summer.

Mrs. Anne Hilton: By the way, how did you leave Jane?
Lieutenant Tony Willett: With the mumps, and with tears, I'm afraid. I haven't much tact, I guess. I didn't know what to say.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: I know. Poor dear. Then you are very attractive, Tony.
Lieutenant Tony Willett: A bone from Mrs. Hilton?
Mrs. Anne Hilton: No, I mean it. It won't be too easy for Jane, getting over it.
Lieutenant Tony Willett: Nonsense. Older men. Every girl goes through it. Didn't you?
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Still going through it.
Lieutenant Tony Willett: Yeah. Older men named Hilton. Don't you ever worry about Jane.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: I won't. As long as the older men are like you.
Lieutenant Tony Willett: You know something, Anne? I'm chump enough to go on living on your compliments for the next six months. Like a camel and water, you know? How long can they go?
Mrs. Anne Hilton: I can't tell you. I never knew one.

Mrs. Emily Hawkins: Good evening, Lieutenant Willett. I didn't know you were back in town.
Lieutenant Tony Willett: Oh, yes. I've learned a new trick. The Navy thought I ought to bring it home. You know, for purposes of moral.
Mrs. Emily Hawkins: I thought you already knew all the tricks, Lieutenant.
Lieutenant Tony Willett: Touché, as we used to say in Minneapolis.

Jane Deborah Hilton: Colonel Smollett, do you mind being talked to at breakfast?
Colonel William G. Smollett: I most certainly do mind.
Jane Deborah Hilton: It's about Bill.
Colonel William G. Smollett: About whom?
Jane Deborah Hilton: Bill. You remember, your grandson.
Colonel William G. Smollett: Yes indeed, I do remember. What about him?
Jane Deborah Hilton: He's a nice boy.
Colonel William G. Smollett: A most interesting observation, Miss Hilton.
Jane Deborah Hilton: I'm afraid you don't understand him. He really needs you to help him, like a mother. He has an inferiority complex, and -
Colonel William G. Smollett: Young woman, I have handled men for 35 years, and I don't think I require any instructions on the subject, least of all about my own grandson!
Jane Deborah Hilton: I was only trying to help! He respects you so much!
Colonel William G. Smollett: Then I'll thank you to do the same and stop your intrusion in my affairs!
Jane Deborah Hilton: If you only knew the first thing about psychology you'd know better than to try to browbeat him. Colonel Smollett! Colonel Smollett, if you'd only listen.
Colonel William G. Smollett: You may advise your mother that henceforth I shall have a decent breakfast downtown for forty cents!
Jane Deborah Hilton: I think you're a rude, mean, horrible, old goat!

Jane Deborah Hilton: Mother?
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Yes, Jane?
Jane Deborah Hilton: Mother, do you think I have a nice figure?
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Yes, darling. You have a beautiful figure.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Do you think Tony might paint me someday?
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Over my dead body.

Jane Deborah Hilton: You were talking about how your grandfather always wanted you to be a soldier. Would you like a sandwich or something?
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: He wanted me to be a general.
Jane Deborah Hilton: But didn't you want to be a general?
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Well, no I didn't.
Jane Deborah Hilton: But why not, Bill?
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: I had an idea it was more important to build things. But, I don't mean it isn't terribly important being a soldier. I don't know how we'd keep the things we build without them.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Of course. But you said you went to West Point. I should think you'd be a lot more than a -
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: More than a corporal, you mean.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Let's have a picnic sometime. I'll bring a - Bill, I didn't mean that. It's wonderful being a corporal.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: No, you meant that if I went to the Academy, I ought to be more than a corporal. Well, you might as well know it. I - I was kicked out and I broke Grandpa's heart.
Jane Deborah Hilton: I'm sure it wasn't your fault.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Yes, it was.
Jane Deborah Hilton: Bill, come and sit down.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: Look. Grandpa's father carried this watch at Vicksburg. Grandpa gave it to me on my tenth birthday. He had it engraved for me. Read it. I'll light a match.
Jane Deborah Hilton: "To William G. Smollett, the Second, who will lead men to glory on the battlefield." You must have been terribly pleased.
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II: I said, "Grandpa, don't people hurt each other in war?" You see, I was only ten. He took the watch away from me. But he gave it back to me again when I entered the Academy. Aw, Jane, I did my best, but I could never make a good officer. I can't lead men, and I know it, so even if I led my class the way Grandpa thought I should -