- Tamsen Sommers: It's a long hard road back from San Francisco. Younger men than my husband have died on that trail.
- Paladin: I'm beginning to see what your wife meant about you.
- Haskell Sommers: Forget about my wife.
- Paladin: Mr Sommers, your wife is not a very easy woman to forget.
- Haskell Sommers: I worked hard all my life to surround myself with beauty. You being an attractive man, Paladin, I don't expect you to appreciate that. With me it's a different case. I can appreciate beauty. I've got a wealth of beauty in my home. Furniture, paintings, statues.
- Paladin: And your wife.
- Haskell Sommers: And my wife. I don't look to part with any of it.
- Tamsen Sommers: You don't look like the sort of man who'd be interested in Art.
- Paladin: And you don't look like the kind of a woman who would be advertising for a husband.
- Tamsen Sommers: That gives us a great deal in common, doesn't it. Neither is what the other expected.