Fay Bainter credited as playing...
Mrs. Amelia Tilford
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: I don't believe this talk of jealousy between Miss Dobie and Miss Wright.
- Mary Tilford: But I didn't say she was jealous of Miss Wright. I said that Mrs. Mortar said that Miss Dobie was jealous of cousin Joe.
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: You look nice and healthy.
- Mary Tilford: Healthy? The way they make you slave around here, I'm lucky I don't have gray hair and rickets!
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: It's all for your own good.
- Mary Tilford: Everything I hate always is.
- Mary Tilford: They don't like to have us near them. They've got secrets or something.
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: There's nothing wrong with people having secrets.
- Mary Tilford: But these were funny secrets.
- Mary Tilford: Honestly, Miss Dobie does get mean and cranky every time Cousin Joe comes and yesterday I heard her say to him, "Damn you."
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: You've picked up some very fine words, haven't you, Mary?
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: Dismissed after a year of backbreaking work. I sacrificed my youth for her; but, I'm sure you know all about that, and ingratitude, and the sting of the wasp.
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: It was wrong of you to brazen it out here tonight. It would be criminally foolish for you to brazen it out in public.