- Mac: I'll bet Sally will be glad to get away from here.
- Doc Watterson: You think so, Mac?
- Mac: Sure. She's always fightin' with that Cortlandt fella. She hates the sight of him.
- Doc Watterson: You know human nature, don't you Mac?
- Mac: From A to Z.
- Doc Watterson: You must have skipped W. The women come under W.
- Mr. Stark: I'm sorry to see that the tune of this here gathering ain't as high as we like to keep it in our sociables around here.
- Grandma Cortlandt: Oh, you mean Red Scanlon. Well, as long as he behaves himself...
- Mr. Stark: No, I'm referring to that medicine show girl your grandson brought here.
- Grandma Cortlandt: By the way, Mr. Stark, what do you hear form that brother of yours at the penitentiary? His term for horse stealin's about up by now, ain't it?
- [Mr. Stark walks off, his nose in the air]
- Peter Cortlandt: I like your dress.
- Sally Watterson: Grandma made most of it.
- Peter Cortlandt: I don't see how you did all that work in one day.
- Sally Watterson: Oh, it took four days.
- Peter Cortlandt: But I didn't ask you until yesterday
- [to the dance]
- Peter Cortlandt: .
- Sally Watterson: [laughs]