Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)

Miriam Seegar: Mary Norton

Quotes 

• Mary Norton : Oh, William Halliwell Magee? Do you know, I've read every book you ever wrote.

  Thomas Hayden : Oh, my gosh!

  Mary Norton : And loved every one of them.

  William Halliwell Magee : [Magee has been pooh-poohing the idea of love at first sight until introduced to Mary Norton]  You're wonderful. I mean... uh... that's wonderful.

• Mary Norton : How did you get in here without this key?

  William Halliwell Magee : Hmph... yours is the only key to Baldpate in existence, I suppose.

  Mary Norton : So I understand.

  William Halliwell Magee : I see. Well if it's any news to you ladies, there are more keys to Baldpate than you can find in a grand piano.