- Mary Ann Robinson: Why do you want me to stay?
- Mike: You're my last chance.
- Mary Ann Robinson: I'm what?
- Mike: I said, you're my last chance.
- Mrs. Gates: Mrs. Carter phoned. She wanted to know how you felt. I told her you were a little peaked, that's all. Anybody who calls, I tell 'em you're just a little bit down.
- [raises window blind, looks outside]
- Mrs. Gates: She said some more of those dirty people had moved in the next block. Honestly, I don't know what's going to happen to this neighborhood!
- Mary Ann Robinson: Everyone is dirty!
- Mrs. Gates: Eat some more! How can you expect to get well? I didn't mean to hurt anybody. Honestly, you can't even go out on the streets alone at night.
- Mary Ann Robinson: [coldly] Why? What could happen?
- Mike: Why don't you stay here?
- Mary Ann Robinson: I have to go to work tomorrow.
- Mike: How much do you make at the Five and Ten?
- Mary Ann Robinson: Enough for me. Let me go now.
- Mike: Well, I'll pay you whatever you make at the Five and Ten and you can stay here. It won't cost you anything.
- Mary Ann Robinson: [yelling] Why do you want me to stay here?
- Mike: If it weren't for me you'd be at the bottom of the river!
- [pause]
- Mike: You can't complain.
- Mary Ann Robinson: [incredulous that Mike has just proposed to her] You don't know who I am!
- Mike: [perfectly sincere] Who are you?
- Mike: You're getting thinner all the time. You look like a ghost.
- Mary Ann Robinson: If I went out sometimes I'd be less pale.
- Mike: Sometimes I think you're hopeless.