- [Rose is taking a break at the backyard. She was all alone since her late husband Charles passed away. The two girls will have a little talk with Rose]
- Dorothy: Honey, are you all right?
- Rose: I'll be fine.
- Blanche: Is this about Arnie?
- Dorothy: No, Blanche. She's upset because they keep changing the taste of coke.
- [Dorothy and Blanche take a seat ans comfort Rose]
- Rose: Arnie wants me to go away with him on a cruise to the Bahamas.
- Blanche: Oh. Oh, and you're upset because he wants you to pay your own way?
- Rose: I'm upset because we'll be all alone, in the middle of an ocean, on a ship, in a state room, with a bed.
- Blanche: Oh.
- Rose: I don't know what to do? I haven't... been with a man in that special way since Charlie died.
- Blanche: Get out of here.
- [Rose is worried about going on a cruise with a man she likes. She worries that she will have to do "it."]
- Rose: It's true. Charlie was the only lover I ever had. And my first time was on our wedding night.
- Blanche: Get out of here.
- Dorothy: Oh, back off, Blanche! Not all of us are classified by the Navy as a friendly port.
- [Oh. Blanche didn't know]
- Rose: Maybe it sounds strange, but without Charlie, I... I thought that part of my life is over. I never gave it a second thought.
- Dorothy: Until now?
- [Rose nodded]
- Dorothy: Then I think you should go on the cruise. Honey, if the situation is right, you'll know it.
- Rose: But I'm not sure I'm ready.
- Dorothy: Oh, honey, I know what you're going through. The bottom line is, if you take a chance in life, sometimes good things happen, sometimes bad things happen. But, honey, if you don't take a chance, nothing happens.
- Rose: I'm gonna take a chance.
- Blanche: Oh, that's wonderful.
- Dorothy: Oh, great, Rose!
- Rose: Oh, I have to look in my closet. I don't even know what to wear the first night on the ship.
- Blanche: A life jacket and a great big smile.