Ned Merrill: How's the family, Howie?Howie Hunsacker: My oldest boy just won the American Legion Scholarship Award. Straight A's this year.Ned Merrill: That's wonderful...Lillian Hunsacker: [Butting in] Yeah, then we bring our kids up to behave themselves. We don't let *our* kids run around drunk, wrecking cars.Jack Finney: He kept his daughters' names outta' the paper *that* time.Sylvia Finney: I'll bet *that* check didn't bounce!Ned Merrill: [Getting agitated] You leave my daughters out of this!Sylvia Finney: Well, why didn't you teach 'em some manners?Lillian Hunsacker: Ah, those girls never paid no attention to him.Howie Hunsacker: You, shut up...Lillian Hunsacker: Look, I'm not blaming the girls. It's him. Always chummin' around with the kids, tryin' to be "one of the gang."Ned Merrill: My daughters worship me. The love me and respect me. Because I'm their father. And they respect me. They respect me!Lillian Hunsacker: [Sarcastically] Yeah?Ned Merrill: My girls love me.Lillian Hunsacker: How many times we heard those girls talkin' in our place. We heard your girls givin' you the raspberry.Ned Merrill: You're a liar.Howie Hunsacker: Come on, Mr. Merrill, don't talk to my wife that way.Ned Merrill: She's a goddamned liar!Howie Hunsacker: Wanna' know what your girls thought of you, Mr. Merrill? Your girls laughed at you. I heard them. They thought you were a great big joke! [Ned, disgusted, angrily shoves Howie aside and runs off]
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