- Paladin: [after some discussion over whether Madame is pointing a shotgun or a rifle at Monsieur Paladin] Voila! Prepared! Discharged! And in any event you have to load the gun before it'll fire. As any good Barbarian knows!
- Madame Chalon: Are all men in this country like Monsieur Paladin?
- Cecile: For this, you wake me?
- Madame Chalon: He's very strong, I think, intelligent, 'til at the same time, he has a simplicity. There were no men like this in Paris.
- Cecile: For this, the French Government can say prayers of thanks.
- [And the eavesdropping Monsieur Paladin goes to sleep with a smirk on his face]
- Madame Chalon: Please now to disembark! Disembark!
- [Paladin dismounts]
- Madame Chalon: The animals in this country are as barbaric as the people. They refuse to obey the most simplest instructions.
- Paladin: Well, Madame, it looks to me as if someone had instructed those animals right into a hole.