- Laura Thompson: A man's dying doesn't mean very much to you, does it?
- Trask: On the contrary, a man's dying means a lot to me.
- Capt. Theodore Bess: Whatever I do I never apologize for it, do you?
- Laura Thompson: No.
- Capt. Theodore Bess: Well, I do now... with reservations.
- Laura Thompson: Such as?
- Capt. Theodore Bess: O, no excuses for discoverin' you're a real woman... my kind... never met one before.
- Laura Thompson: Next I'll remind you of your mother.
- Capt. Theodore Bess: You couldn't. I was raised in a foundling home.
- Sheriff Chadborune: Pioneering in this country can be awful rough.
- Jerome 'Jerry' Niblett: Men go where there's money to be made.
- Capt. Theodore Bess: And women?
- Laura Thompson: They go with the men who make it... or try.