Riverboat1959

Captain Grey Holden:
Lady, I'm sorry if I appear uncouth to you, but your father was marked down for one of the oldest hoaxes on the river.

Marian Templeton:
Hoaxes?

Captain Grey Holden:
Hoaxes. They make you think your boat isn't coming, so you hire another one too quickly and then it begins. They start charging you for extra for everything - food, fuel, supplies - everything. Before they're through, they've bleed you dry just to keep on schedule.

Marian Templeton:
You saved us from that?

Captain Grey Holden:
I also saved a job for our boat which we need badly. If that makes me a bore, I can't help it.