Quotes

• [Blanche is bathing]
• [Blanche's dress, a flowered print, is laid out on my Stella's bed]
• [the perpetual 'blue piano' around the corner]
• How about my supper, huh?
• I'm going to try to keep Blanche out till the party breaks up because I don't know how she would take it
• you'd better give me some money
• She's soaking in a hot tub to quiet her nerves
• be sure to say something nice about her appearance
• Don't mention the baby. I haven't said anything yet, I'm waiting until she gets in a quieter condition.
• I'd tried to gloss things over in my letters
• Her little weakness!
• Yeah. I get the idea.
• let's skip back to when you said the country place was disposed of.
• Sister Blanche
• Shhh! She'll hear you
• Let's see the papers!
• the Napoleonic code
• what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa
• I don't like to be swindled
• she'll go to pieces again
• you don't know how ridiculous you are being when you suggest that my sister or I or anyone of our family could have perpetrated a swindle on anyone else
• Not sold - lost, lost
• Genuine fox fur-pieces, a half mile long! Where are your fox-pieces Stella?
• I got an acquaintance
• The treasure chest of a pirate!
• What is this sister of yours, a deep-sea diver who brings up sunken treasures?
• Be still, Stanley
• [He kicks the trunk]
• The Kowalski's and the Dubois have different notions
• [Blanche comes out of the bathroom in a red satin robe]
• Here I am, all freshly bathed and scented, and feeling like a brand-new human being