Doesn't anybody ever see you any more ?" She heard him laugh to himself unpleasantly; then: "Does anybody want to ?" "Everybody, of course! You know it.

You always were spoiled to death." "Yes--to death." "Stephen!" "Yes ?" "Are you becoming cynical ?" "I?
Why should I ?" "You are! Stop it! Mercy on us! If that is what is going on in a certain house on lower Fifth Avenue, facing the corner of certain streets, it's time somebody dropped in to--" "To--what ?" "To the rescue! I've a mind to do it myself.

They say you are not well, either." "Who says that ?" "Oh, the usual little ornithological cockatrice--or, rather, cantatrice.
Don't ask me, because I won't tell you.

I always tell you too much, anyway.

Don't I ?" "Do you ?" "Of course I do.