- Mrs. Early: Do you like hotcakes?
- Janet Blake: Yes, I love them.
- Mrs. Early: So do I. I make them with butterscotch.
- Janet Blake: Butterscotch?
- Mrs. Early: Quarter pound of butter, three jiggers of scotch. Keeps you healthy and happy.
- Preston Mitchell: [seeing that Mrs. Early has a drink] What's that?
- Mrs. Early: This is my own invention for hot nights, I call it a Foreign Legion.
- Preston Mitchell: Why?
- Mrs. Early: Helps me forget.
- Preston Mitchell: What's in it?
- Mrs. Early: One part Dubonnet, one part sherry, three jiggers of gin, a dash of bitters, a slice of orange and a cup of sand.
- Preston Mitchell: Mm. Why the orange?
- Mrs. Early: There wasn't any lemon.
- Preston Mitchell: Oh, I see.
- Mrs. Early: If you're not going to read that play why don't you go to the dance?
- Preston Mitchell: And miss what's going to happen to you, after you kill off the Foreign Legion? I'd never forgive myself.