Lucy: In fact, I'm supposed to meet him in a half hour, if that's OK.
Blanche: But darling, you just got here.
Lucy: Aunt Blanche, you always said, "If you've got a stallion eating oats out of your hand, best close the gate before you give him the sugar."
Dorothy: You said that, Blanche?
Lucy: I won't go if you don't want me to but I do want to go, so can I?
Blanche: Would your mother let you go?
Lucy: No.
Blanche: Then go.