Donna Reed credited as playing...
Alma - aka Lorene
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: I love the army.
- Alma: But it sure doesn't love you.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: A man loves a thing, that don't mean it's gotta love him back.
- Alma: Yeah, but a person can stand just so much.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: You love a thing, you've got to be grateful.
- Alma: Sit down and - and get comfortable. I'll make you a martini and see what's to cook for dinner.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Hey, this is like being married, ain't it?
- Alma: It's better.
- Alma: Prew, it's true we love each other now, we need each other, but back in the States it might be different.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: That ain't the real reason.
- Alma: You're right, it's not.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: What is the real reason?
- Alma: I - I won't marry you because I don't want to be the wife of a soldier.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Well, that... would be about the best I could ever do for you.
- Alma: Because nobody's going to stop me from my plan. Nobody, nothing. Because I want to be proper!
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Proper.
- Alma: Yes, proper! In another year I'll have enough money saved. Then I'm going to go back to my home town in Oregon, and I'm going to build a house for my mother and myself, and join the country club and take up golf. Then I'll meet the proper man with the proper position, to make a proper wife, and can run a proper home and raise proper children. And I'll be HAPPY because when you're PROPER you're SAFE!
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: You've got guts, honey. I hope you can pull that off.
- Alma: I do mean it when I say I need you. 'Cause I'm lonely. You think I'm lying, don't you?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
- Alma: [Maggio offers her a drink] No, thanks, I don't drink.
- [Maggio gives her a look]
- Alma: I think it's a weakness.
- Angelo Maggio: I grant ya that.
- Alma: [to Prewitt] You don't like weakness do you?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: No, I don't like weakness... but I like to drink!
- Alma: What do you think Mrs. Kipfer hires us for? She pays us to be nice to all the boys. You're all alike. Is it so important?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: It is important. We may seem all alike. We ain't all alike.
- Angelo Maggio: Maybe I'll go to Mexico and become a cowboy. You want to go with me?
- Alma: You keep on drinking, you'll be as much use as a melted candle.
- Angelo Maggio: You're absolutely right. Bartender, whiskey! Large whiskey.