[Harriet and Nellie enter the Ingalls' house. Nellie is totally convered with mud, from head to tow, as a result of the brawl with Laura. Caroline bursts out laughing; Charles and Jonathan laugh too]
Harriet Oleson: [enraged] You think this is funny, do you? Ugh! Your Laura did this!
Caroline Ingalls: What?
Nellie Oleson: She attacked me! Tried to kill me!
Caroline Ingalls: Why?
Nellie Oleson: [lies] Because... I saw her and Almanzo Wilder kissing! And I told her I would tell.
Charles Ingalls: You... saw them... kissing?
Nellie Oleson: She's with him now! They rode off in his buckboard!
Charles Ingalls: [scowls] They... they rode off in a buckboard, huh?
Nellie Oleson: Toward his place!
Charles Ingalls: Jonathan, I need a ride.
[Charles and Jonathan walk out]
Caroline Ingalls: [worried] Charles, don't do anything in haste!
Charles Ingalls: Haste? Oh no Caroline, I'm not going to do anything in haste! I'm going to take all the time in the world while I beat Almanzo Wilder within an inch of his life!