- Flint McCullough: Charlie!
- Charlie Wooster: Yuh?
- Flint McCullough: You know the Major's a man of fine judgement. He thinks you're too valuable to leave the train.
- Charlie Wooster: [Bill is bursting to laugh out loud] I guess you're right. But anyways, if he does trade for the fresh horses, how's he gonna get them back here by himself?
- Bill Hawks: Charles, how do you think that rancher he's gonna trade with, will get these tired old horses back to his place?
- Charlie Wooster: Why, he'll send someone alone naturally...
- Bill Hawks: You know, you're getting smarter all the time. You're starting to answer your own questions.
- 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.
- Fletcher Forest: He won't get as homesick travelling as he will sitting.
- Flint McCullough: I see. You know, Mr Forest, I've seen lots of fathers on this train. Some treat their boys like they were workhorses, others don't know they're alive. I think it's nice, well, the regard you and David have for each other.
- Fletcher Forest: Well, thanks for saying that, Flint. Just hope I don't spoil him too much.
- Flint McCullough: I don't think so.
- 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.
- David Forest: I like Miss Sadler. She's kinda different.
- Fletcher Forest: What do you mean, different?
- David Forest: When I shook hands with her, they were as soft as a kitten's neck and she smelt good too.
- 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.
- Fletcher Forest: Is it because you don't happen to have a child of your own? That shouldn't be so diffiult for a woman like you.
- 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.
- Fletcher Forest: David is my son. You're little more than a stranger to him. I've asked you to leave him alone. That's my right, I believe.
- Cadge Waldo: I'm drunk. I'm very drunk. You wanna know why I'm drunk. Listening to Miss Sadler cry. And the more she cried, the more I drank. And I reached my decision. I reach some of my best decisions when I'm drunk.
- Flint McCullough: He's not your Pa. He's your grandfather. You've got to accept that. And once you have, you have to ask yourself why he raised you as his son. He did it to protect you from the fact that you were born in prison. He could have told you about your parents. He could've destroyed the idea of mother to you. But he didn't.
- 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.