- [last lines]
- [Inga's boyfriend knocks on her window after she is back home from her sexual awakening in Stockholm]
- Helen - Inga's friend: [sitting with Inga in her room] Here are the boys. Ole wants to take you to the movie.
- Inga: I have to ask mother first.
- [after Inga settles in her sister's and Carsten's apartment]
- Carsten - Greta's boyfriend: What are you taking at school?
- Inga: I'm taking the required program.
- Carsten - Greta's boyfriend: Do you like it?
- Inga: Yes.
- Carsten - Greta's boyfriend: [lights a cigarette] Smoke?
- Inga: No, thank you.
- Carsten - Greta's boyfriend: You don't smoke. Do you drink?
- Inga: No.
- Carsten - Greta's boyfriend: What DO you do?
- Inga: I'm in school.
- Carsten - Greta's boyfriend: Oh yes, I know, you just told me. But, I mean, after school?
- Inga: I do my homework.
- Carsten - Greta's boyfriend: Oh. How nice. But I mean at NIGHT, for excitement.
- Inga: Sometimes me and my friends are going to the movies.
- Carsten - Greta's boyfriend: Your friend?
- Inga: My boyfriend. We are going steady.
- Carsten - Greta's boyfriend: So you're going steady... what does that mean? Does it mean you're, ah, holding hands in public or maybe you read poetry together?
- Inga: Sometimes.
- [Carsten puts his hand on his face in frustration]