- Capt. Daniel Gregg: I wish for a little quite around here. Sailors on shore leave make less noise than THIS household.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: I've been thinking about our arrangement.
- Carolyn Muir: Mm.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: I'm willing to make a concession since you find it so difficult to abide by the rules.
- Carolyn Muir: Uh, me?
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Yes.
- Carolyn Muir: Well, I think we're just muddling through splendidly.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: No, I've been selfish. I have no wish to deprive you and the children of my company.
- Carolyn Muir: Ah.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: I'm recinding the rules.
- Carolyn Muir: Oh, but we like the rules. They're practical.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Nonsense. They're harsh and unrealistic.
- Carolyn Muir: Not at all.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Yes, they are. This is a house, not a ship.
- Carolyn Muir: Well, it has a captain and a crew.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Bilge. It has a family.
- Carolyn Muir: We needed rules. You were right.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: You did not! I was wrong!
- Carolyn Muir: Wrong? Not you.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Yes, me!
- Carolyn Muir: You need your privacy.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: NO MAN IS AN ISLAND!
- Carolyn Muir: Except you.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Oh, the opposite sex - why do they have to be so... opposite?
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: [finding Carolyn surprisingly agreeable] Are you up to something?
- Carolyn Muir: Captain, you do me a great injustice.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: [suspicious] I do, do I?
- Carolyn Muir: Mm.
- Claymore Gregg: Well, you're going out? Aren't you staying for the, uh, party for, uh, you-know-who?
- Martha Grant: No, and I didn't stay for Peter Pan's either.
- [Martha and Carolyn discuss making a cake for the Captain's birthday until Scruffy indicates the Captain's presence]
- Carolyn Muir: Uh, eh... asparagus would be fine.
- Martha Grant: On a cake?
- Carolyn Muir: With a hollandaise sauce.
- [Carolyn exits]
- Martha Grant: [to herself] Maybe I'll try some chocolate icing on the soup.
- Carolyn Muir: Were you really surprised, Captain?
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: I was absolutely speechless, madam; however, I do not think this is the occasion for frivolity.
- Carolyn Muir: Oh, what better occasion than your birthday?
- Claymore Gregg: Mm-hm, and it's all because of me. I told them the date.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: I thought YOU might have, you clod. You are not celebrating the date on which I was born. You're celebrating the date on which I passed away.
- Claymore Gregg: [alarmed] Well... nobody's perfect.
- Jonathan Muir: Martha, did I thank you for my birthday cake?
- Martha Grant: Well, I guess your mouth was just too full of it for the words to come out.