- Vera Kessler: Well, do you - do you want to give me my letters now - or must I pay Cash On Delivery?
- Arnold Hartmann: You needn't quite make me out a blackmailer.
- Vera Kessler: I don't blame you for thinking me a fool after the way I behaved in Italy. But, I'm not altogether an idiot. You asked for a loan, you hinted at a threat. There was really no mistaking what you meant.
- Vera Kessler: How I ever could have become infatuated with you?
- Arnold Hartmann: The fact remains, dear lady, you did. Very much.
- Vera Kessler: In Pesaro, I was a fool! I was mad!
- Arnold Hartmann: Oh, you're not the first neglected wife to lose her head.
- Vera Kessler: But, I didn't! Thank heaven I came to my senses before anything happened between us. I can always be grateful for that, at least.
- Arnold Hartmann: You know, your new role as the faithful, loving wife, I must say, is rather amusing.
- Julia Sturm: Michael, if you must yawn, don't swallow them in that annoying manner.
- Michael Sturm: They're good for my digestion. I had a hard day at the office.
- Julia Sturm: Office? Its nothing but matrimony. You've been sleepy ever since you married me.
- Michael Sturm: No, it started with our - engagement.
- [yawn]
- Julia Sturm: Well, pleasant dreams.
- Julia Sturm: You know, a woman like Vera might seem strong and proud; but, even the strongest woman needs her man to be just a little stronger.
- Michael Sturm: My dear, that lecture of yours needs colored slides.
- Carl Weild: A man called Hartmann, Arnold Hartmann.
- Vera Kessler: Hartmann?
- Carl Weild: Yes. We used to be friends. I haven't seen him for ages. He turned out to be pretty much of a rotter.
- Julia Sturm: So, he was a gigolo. I knew it!
- Carl Weild: Whatever he was, he was a rotter!
- Judge Richard Kessler: Well, he's made love to one woman too many.
- Carl Weild: You certainly have changed a lot lately. You've become kinder - more human, somehow.
- Vera Kessler: I'm trying to be - human.
- Julia Sturm: I knew you'd like it here. Life and color - that's what you need.
- Vera Kessler: It's very gay!
- Michael Sturm: That makes it unanimous! We're all going to have a good time, no matter how hard a time we have doing it.
- Vera Kessler: Give me some more wine. Let's drink. Let's be gay! I want to have lots of fun. I want to laugh. It's been so long since I've laughed.
- [last lines]
- Julia Sturm: Happy New Year!
- Carl Weild, Julia Sturm, Michael Sturm: Happy New Year!
- Carl Weild: The old year is gone!
- Michael Sturm: With good riddance!
- Judge Richard Kessler: Gone - and forgotten.
- [embraces and kisses Vera]