Quotes

Kitty: It's raining cats and dogs. [no answer] I said it's raining cats and dogs.

Walter: Yes, I heard you.

Kitty: You might have answered.

Walter: I suppose I'm not used to speaking unless I've something to say.

Kitty: If people only spoke when they had something to say, the human race would soon lose the power of speech.

Kitty: The very idea that any woman should marry any Tom, Dick or Harry regardless of her own feelings is simply prehistoric.

Kitty: As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

Walter: I knew when I married you that you were selfish and spoiled. But I loved you. I knew you only married me to get as far away from your mother as possible. And I hoped that one day... there'd be something more. I was wrong. You don't have it in you.

Kitty: If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him then it's his fault not hers.

Walter: Either way. Tomorrow morning we are to leave for Mei-tan-fu, or I shall file my petition.

Kitty: Walter, you can't be serious about taking me into the middle of a cholera epidemic.

Walter: Do you think that I'm not?

Kitty: My God. That's what you want isn't it? Do you really think Charlie will let you do this?

Walter: I don't think Charlie has very much to say about it.

Kitty: Everything you said is true. Everything. I married you even though I didn't love you. But you knew that. Aren't you as much to blame for what's happened as I?

Kitty: I think I've been afraid of you!

Walter: Well, you should have been.

Kitty: For God's sake, Walter, will you stop punishing me? Do you absolutely despise me?

Walter: No. I despise myself.

Kitty: Why?

Walter: For allowing myself to love you once.

Walter: Would you like a ride home?

Kitty: On what, the buffalo?

Kitty: Walter ... stop. I'm pregnant.

Walter: A baby? You're quite certain?

Kitty: Yes.

Walter: Well, that's wonderful. [reflects upon seeing Kitty's face]How long do you think you've been like this?

Kitty: Two months. Maybe longer.

Walter: Kitty. Am I the father?

Kitty: [cries softly] I honestly don't know. I'm sorry.

Walter: Well... It doesn't matter now, does it?

Kitty: No... No, it doesn't.

Walter: [to Kitty] Are you looking to kill yourself?

Walter: It was silly of us to look for qualities in each other that we never had.

Walter: Forgive me...

Kitty: Forgive you? [pauses] There's nothing to forgive.

[Walter remains silent]

Kitty: Walter... [sobs] I'm sorry...