Elaine Stritch credited as playing...
Tracy Sadler
- Tracy Sadler: I just don't want you to let anyone know you're looking for him. Now just go out and find him.
- Flint McCullough: Wait a minute. I'm gonna throw a hoedown tonight. Sort of get the folkes' minds off the fact that they'll not be travelling for a few days. And I thought, maybe, well, I could offer myself as an escort, help you get acquainted.
- Tracy Sadler: Well, I'm sorry. I'll get your money.
- Flint McCullough: Well, if I didn't know better, I'd say that Miss Tracy Sadler had changed her mind.
- Tracy Sadler: Well, am I still welcome? Is it all right?
- Flint McCullough: Only if you'll dance with me.
- Tracy Sadler: Well, then it's all right then, isn't it? Thank you. I just got to thinking maybe you're right. I've joined your train. I should get out and meet some of my neighbours.
- Flint McCullough: There's no time like the present.
- Tracy Sadler: I can't. I'm scared.
- Cadge Waldo: Scared? Of what? Forest? I'll take care of him.
- Tracy Sadler: It's not Forest. It's the time I spent waiting for this moment. Twelve years. In prison.
- Cadge Waldo: In prison?
- Tracy Sadler: That's right. Twelve years waiting for the moment I first set eyes on him. Now it's here and I don't know what to do.
- Cadge Waldo: Only clothes I got. Otherwise I would've washed them long ago.
- Tracy Sadler: All right then. Just comb your hair and clean your face.
- Cadge Waldo: GET WASHED? Yes'm.
- Cadge Waldo: You're gonna have a fight on your hands, ain't ya?
- Tracy Sadler: Thought you were asleep.
- Cadge Waldo: Old Cadge ain't never asleep when something's going on.
- Tracy Sadler: I just said hello to your grandfather.
- David Forest: Oh, he's not my grandfather, Miss Sadler, he's my father.
- Tracy Sadler: Oh, for heavens sake, don't you dare tell him I made such a silly mistake, will you.
- Fletcher Forest: Not silly, Miss Sadler. It's a common mistake.
- Tracy Sadler: What happens? What do you think?
- David Forest: Well.
- Tracy Sadler: Come on, David.
- David Forest: Sometimes I wish she looked like you... You may think I'm awful silly for saying that.
- Tracy Sadler: No, I don't think you're silly, David, 'cos, you see, if I ever had a little boy, I'd want him to look exactly like you.
- Fletcher Forest: I was right about you all along.
- Tracy Sadler: You've never been right about me. You've never taken the trouble to be right about me.
- Tracy Sadler: Were you really doing chores for your Pa?
- David Forest: Well, no. I was waiting for Pa to take his afternoon nap. He just now went to sleep.
- Tracy Sadler: He doesn't seem to like me very much.
- David Forest: Oh, it isn't that he doesn't like you, Tracy. It's just he hasn't got much use for any women.
- Tracy Sadler: No one in the world will know how happy I am tonight.
- Flint McCullough: You've been quite a surprise to me.
- Tracy Sadler: What do you mean?
- Flint McCullough: Well, when I met you today, you were distant, I might even say unfriendly. Tonight you've been charming, I might even say radiant. Naturally I'm curious about the change.
- Tracy Sadler: Well, ah, let's just say I'm grateful for your company. Can we leave it at that?
- Flint McCullough: Yes, we can but if you decide tiy want to talk about it some time, I'd like to be the one.
- Tracy Sadler: [She holds out her hand and they shake hands] Goodnight, Mr McCullough.
- Cadge Waldo: Miss Sadler, I didn't know you were carrying that kind of money,
- Tracy Sadler: I wouldn't have it now if you did.
- Cadge Waldo: Well, you do me an injustice. What kind of man do you think I am?
- Tracy Sadler: I know exactly what kind of man you are. That's why I hired you.