- Count Anton Kardak: I must keep my eye on you.
- Renee de Vaillant: That will add a certain piquancy to almost any situation.
- Monsieur Gilbertier: How can I work, how can I create? You do not keep still, you are too tall, your curves are not in the right place!
- Therese: You talk as if the poor girl had spent her life in night clubs. She seemed to me, last night from what I saw of her. To be a very quiet, modest little girl. Good family too.
- Count Anton Kardak: Ha!
- Therese: Isn't she?
- Count Anton Kardak: It depends what you mean by good.
- Renee de Vaillant: I wish sometimes Count, I was tall like you. So useful at race meetings and public executions.
- Renee de Vaillant: I'm glad to be of service to you, Countess, but it's hard for me not to be able to wear as you can jewels of any size and of any colour. Yet I know that only one stone goes with the colour of my eyes.
- Count Max Kardak: What's that?
- Renee de Vaillant: Emeralds.
- Maria: You *are* unfortunate. In this country green eyes are associated only with witches, cats and snakes.
- Maria: Anyhow, she reminds me of a wax doll. The kind that says 'Mama' and 'Papa' when you squeeze it. Or one of those dogs that wear bows and yap.
- Maria: Pity you don't care for sports.
- Renee de Vaillant: Oh, it's not that. I prefer *other* sports.
- Baroness de Jammes: You see, my child, in this life you can't have everything. Take husbands for instance.
- Renee de Vaillant: Husbands?
- Baroness de Jammes: Yes dear, you must know what a husband is - a necessary commodity. Well, it's very important for you to have a good husband.
- Renee de Vaillant: A good husband?
- Baroness de Jammes: Yes, with good looks, a good family and a good income. But unfortunately these things don't always go together...
- Count Anton Kardak: A quiet modest little girl! My own opinion is that she's a consummate little minx!
- Therese: If that's your opinion, why did you bring her here?
- Count Anton Kardak: Because she amuses me.
- Therese: Anton - you really are incorrigible.
- Count Anton Kardak: Nonsense, Theresa. I like people who can fence with grace and agility, and never show their wounds.
- Therese: Is that a way of saying that Renee has no heart?
- Count Anton Kardak: I haven't probed it. I said I thought she was a minx, but what an excellent, rare and precious minx, like a Dresden statuette!