- Inmate Ruth: Say, Mrs. Campbell, can I have Marge back in my cell with me?
- Mrs. Campbell - Prison Matron: You've got Kitty in with you.
- Inmate Ruth: That dame! She was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. She never runs down! I'm so sick of listening to True Confessions.
- Roger Heath: [about his daughter] She has a new car, hasn't she? Another woman driver to make life unsafe on the streets!
- Kate Heath: [on Connie's relationship with Neil] They're good friends, that's all. I'd trust Neil Dillon anytime.
- Roger Heath: You would, eh? I wouldn't trust any lawyer - or banker, either!
- Opening Title Card: Foreword: Probation is a humane system which tempers justice with mercy. Under its application a convicted first offender is often saved from the debasing effect of a prison sentence and given another chance to go straight. To many thousands of girls the Probation Department is a halfway milepost between happiness and degradation.
- Connie Heath: Oh, Hilda, by the way, Mr. Todd's plenty burnt up about you playing around with boys so much. You better kinda keep your mind on your work.
- Hilda Engstrom: Boys are my work! There's no future in the cleaning business.
- Connie Heath: Well, what future is there in sitting around from one man to another?
- Hilda Engstrom: Oh, I should stay at home and sit around all the time like you do.
- Connie Heath: I don't sit around. I'm just waiting for the right one, that's all.
- Hilda Engstrom: Yeah, when he comes along, he'll probably be signed up with another dame.
- Connie Heath: There's nothing wrong with Hilda.
- Roger Heath: Don't tell me about that one. That brainless hussy flirts with every man she meets. First thing you know, you will turn out same as she is!
- Connie Heath: She just stopped in to help me fix an evening dress for a party tomorrow night.
- Roger Heath: What party?
- Connie Heath: We're just going dancing, that's all.
- Roger Heath: Well, you can't go! Not with that wench!
- Todd: [to Connie] This is Miss Adams, one of our customers. She left this dress at the Porter Street branch to be cleaned.
- Gloria Adams: [sarcastically] And you can imagine how delighted that I was to see you dancing in it at the Hula House last night!
- Connie Heath: Are you sure it's the same dress?
- Gloria Adams: You know it is!
- Neil Dillon: Well, as I get this you wanted to go to a party and knock some poor guy for a loop with a swell gown so you helped yourself to Gloria's dress. All of which goes to prove that crime doesn't pay.
- Connie Heath: I'm not a criminal!
- Kate Heath: Be careful what friends you make, honey. Sometimes it's a girl's friends who get her into trouble.
- Matron Emmy: Miss Lennox, if you'd been around here as long as I have, you'd find out it's true: the female is deadlier than the male!
- Jane Lennox: You said you were innocent; but, one would think you actually wanted to go to prison. Do you?
- Connie Heath: No! No girl wants that.
- Jane Lennox: A woman's prison is a tough place for a girl like you. It'll break you down and leave a stain you can never wash out.
- Jane Lennox: There must be someone who loves you. Perhaps a man somewhere?
- Connie Heath: There's no one.
- Jane Lennox: Now, that's hard to believe. A young girl like you only 22 and no one who cares for her? Why, I'm much older than you with only half your looks; but, there's a man who says he loves me.
- Miss Lewis - Secretary: I always knew that girl was no good.
- Jane Lennox: Oh, nonsense. There's a little good in the worst of us.
- Miss Lewis - Secretary: Yeah and a lot of bad in the best of us.
- Jane Lennox: My dear, the only way to begin with any man is tell him the truth. Then they'll forgive a lot.
- Connie Heath: Congratulations.
- Neil Dillon: Why?
- Connie Heath: Well, I heard that you were going to be married to Miss Adams.
- Neil Dillon: There are wars and rumors of wars. But, I'm still neutral.
- Neil Dillon: You must be tired.
- Connie Heath: Not terribly.
- Neil Dillon: I know I am. You're sweet.
- [kiss]
- Connie Heath: Must you do that!
- Neil Dillon: You mean to tell me you didn't expect me to?
- Connie Heath: I know bosses are expected to take advantage of their secretaries when they keep them working at night. But, Mr. Dillon! I thought you were different.
- Neil Dillon: Miss Heath! Do you dare deny that for the past six months you subtly encouraged me and lead me on?
- Connie Heath: I make an amendment to that complaint. I've been encouraging you and leading you on ever since I came to work here. But, I don't think I was very subtle about it.
- Neil Dillon: That calls for a rebuttal.
- Connie Heath: Objection!
- Neil Dillon: Objection, overruled.
- [kiss]
- Neil Dillon: Get back to work.
- Connie Heath: Yes, sir.
- Tony Rand: What do you mean you're going out? Going out for what?
- Hilda Engstrom: Well, how long do you think you'll be safe hiding out here with me?
- Tony Rand: So, you're going to take a powder on me, are you?