- Mr. Winfield: Marjorie's young and very inexperienced. All she knows about men is their batting averages.
- Stella: In case you're interested, this one's batting a thousand.
- Stella: [to Marjorie] Men have been buzzing around here like flies ever since you gave up baseball! This place is beginning to look like the YMCA on a rainy afternoon!
- Stella: I'm dead! Mr. Winfield, that kitchen's too big! I'm tellin' ya, it must be 30 feet from the stove to the cupboard! I'm bein' paid to be a cook, not a cross-country runner!
- Mr. Winfield: Stella, bring me some hot coffee.
- Stella: Okay, but it'll be cold by the time I hike back.
- William 'Bill' Sherman: The University of Indiana. I'm a senior.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: Oh, it must be wonderful.
- William 'Bill' Sherman: It's a farce. All the fellas are interested in is playing football and baseball, and women. Women and more women. Can you think of a bigger waste of time?
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: What's wrong with baseball?
- William 'Bill' Sherman: Baseball! It's the national insanity. At a time like this when, when civilization is crumbling beneath our feet, our generation is playing baseball, and singing songs like...
- Chorus: [sings in the background] We were sailing along / On Moonlight Bay
- William 'Bill' Sherman: We were sailing along, on Moonlight Bay. Isn't that silly?
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: I rather liked it.
- William 'Bill' Sherman: Have you heard the rest of it?
- [sings]
- William 'Bill' Sherman: You have stolen her heart / Now, don't go away. As we sang love's old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.
- [back to speaking]
- William 'Bill' Sherman: That musta been written by a man with a glass of beer in one hand and a rhyming dictionary in the other.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: Oh, I think it's beautiful.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: Won't you come in and have a nice cool glass of buttermilk?
- William 'Bill' Sherman: Yeah. I guess I'd like that. Marjorie?
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: Yes, William?
- William 'Bill' Sherman: In all fairness, I've got to tell you something.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: What?
- William 'Bill' Sherman: I don't believe in marriage.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: But I just asked you in for some buttermilk.
- William 'Bill' Sherman: Well, I... I didn't want to drink it under false pretences.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: Well, my goodness. Maybe, I don't believe in marriage, either.
- [William storms out of Marjorie's house after a misunderstanding with her family]
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: Won't you please come back?
- William 'Bill' Sherman: I only make a fool of myself once a night.
- [the electricity goes off in Marjorie's house; she lights a match before going to walk Bill to the door]
- William 'Bill' Sherman: Marjorie? I'd like to call on you again.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: [cheerily] When?
- William 'Bill' Sherman: Would, uh, tomorrow morning be too soon?
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: Oh, no!
- [the match goes out and they kiss for the first time in the dark]
- Wesley Winfield: Seems to me a person wouldn't sing so loud in the morning when they knew another person's got a sick headache!
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: Seems to me a person always gets a sick headache on school days.
- [Wesley has stolen Marjorie's letter to Bill for his homework]
- Miss Mary Stevens: Wesley Winfield, you may read your letter.
- Wesley Winfield: But ma'am...
- Miss Mary Stevens: [sternly] You may read your letter!
- Wesley Winfield: Yes, ma'am.
- Miss Mary Stevens: Have you prepared one?
- Wesley Winfield: Yes, ma'am.
- Miss Mary Stevens: But, uh, you're going to find out that you've forgot to bring it, aren't you?
- Wesley Winfield: [takes the letter out of his schoolbook] No, ma'am, I got it.
- Miss Mary Stevens: Well, we'll listen to what you've found time to prepare. For once.
- [Wesley stands in front of the class and reads "his" letter aloud]
- Wesley Winfield: "Dear friend, you called me beautiful, but I'm really not beautiful, and at times, I doubt if I'm even pretty. Though my hair may be beautiful and if it is true that my eyes are like the blue stars... in... Heaven..."
- [the class laughs]
- Miss Mary Stevens: [to Wesley] Go on.
- Wesley Winfield: [to himself] Oh no...
- Miss Mary Stevens: Proceed!
- Wesley Winfield: "A-A tremor thrills my being when I recall... your... last words to me... that last... that last..."
- Miss Mary Stevens: [impatiently] Go on.
- Wesley Winfield: "That-that last... evening... in... the moonlight when you... you..."
- Miss Mary Stevens: Wesley, you will go on. And you will stop that stammering!
- Wesley Winfield: "You-you kissed my shoulder and-and said that you would like to love me forever and ever... and ever... and ever..."
- Miss Mary Stevens: Wesley...
- Wesley Winfield: "A-And that if you believed in marriage you would... want me to... Yours respectfully, Wesley Winfield."
- [Wesley quickly sits back down, embarrassed, while the class laughs at him]
- William 'Bill' Sherman: Think, we might never have met if you hadn't taken a shot at me.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: Oh, don't joke about that! Why, I might've killed you!
- William 'Bill' Sherman: Well, what's one life more or less when all of Europe is bathed in blood?
- Mr. Winfield: Wesley, you stay out of the living room. Your sister is entertaining a caller.
- Wesley Winfield: Is he telling her "her eyes are like the blue stars in Heaven"?
- Mr. Winfield: Now, where did you pick that up?
- Wesley Winfield: Ah, I've been around.
- Mr. Winfield: Well, just the same, you stay out of the living room.
- Miss Mary Stevens: [to Wesley] Now, do you know the difference between a proper and improper fraction? Wesley, if you don't pay attention, you'll never learn.
- Alice 'Mother' Winfield: It's no use. I've told her a thousand times, a gentleman always walks on the outside.
- Mr. Winfield: Is that our daughter? It's amazing what a little paint and powder will do
- Alice 'Mother' Winfield: Yes, isn't it.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield, Hubert Wakely: [sings] Love ya, love ya, honey / Love ya, love ya, honey.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: [sings] Christmas, can't you hear the church bells ringing?
- Carolers: [sings] Ooooh...
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield, William 'Bill' Sherman: [sings] So wait and pray each night for me, till we meet again.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield, William 'Bill' Sherman: [sings] We were sailing along / On Moonlight Bay / We could hear the voices ringing / They seemed to say.
- Chorus: [sings] Wish we could stay.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield, William 'Bill' Sherman: [sings] You have stolen her heart / Now, don't go away.
- Chorus: [sings] Nobody here but you and me.
- Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield, William 'Bill' Sherman: [sings] As we sang love's old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.