Jan Clayton credited as playing...
Charity Kirby
- Charity Kirby: The surf is ladies from the gowns of all the women who drowned at sea. Old lace yellowed with tears and brined with memories. There's a ball tonight on the smooth shadowed floor of the ocean and all the best people will be there. Dancing a minuet fathoms below.
- Patience Kirby: A sea child dies on land.
- Charity Kirby: What did you say?
- Patience Kirby: A sea child dies on land.
- Charity Kirby: Who told you that?
- Patience Kirby: I don't know. Someone in Gloucester.
- Charity Kirby: Land like any other land? Grass that grows higher than a man's head, animals as big as houses, heat, dust, dirt, bugs, Indians. This is a Devil's land.
- Matt Kirby: Charity.
- Charity Kirby: We've got to get back to Gloucester. I've got to take my children back. Oh, if only I were there this minute, I can feel the sea crashing about me. Just for one moment.
- Matt Kirby: Look ahead, Charity, don't think of the past, think of the future.