- [last lines]
- Clegg: The Battle of Mazurka, two hours at the most, huh. And our Alvin, without flinching, day after day, living next door to Nora Batty.
- [first lines]
- Ivy: Let me have a look in the daylight. You can't tell by artificial light.
- Alvin: She'll go to any lengths, that woman, to attract my attention.
- Nora Batty: The number of times I sweep that yard, and still there are things I can never get rid of.
- Ivy: Ignore it. It might go away.
- Nora Batty: It keeps coming back!
- Alvin: I've seen her in some very funny hats, but that's pushing it even for her.
- Ivy: It's part of her costume, dimwit. She's in the float parade. She's playing the general's wife.
- Alvin: Oh, lucky him. Who's playing the general?
- Nora Batty: Nobody. He's a dummy.
- Alvin: Well, he'd have to be to be married to you.
- Ivy: It's a lifelike dummy of the hero of the battle of Mazurka. They use it every year. It's a piece of history. It's dressed in one of the general's original uniforms.
- Alvin: You're getting all dressed up to sit on a float next to a dummy!
- Nora Batty: I've had plenty of practice being next to dummies since you moved here.