- Charles Ingalls: What's all that talking up there?
- Laura Ingalls: We're just saying goodnight, Pa.
- Charles Ingalls: The next thing I want to hear out of you is good morning!
- Caroline Ingalls: He has a very busy schedule.
- Harriet Oleson: Is that what he told you?
- Caroline Ingalls: What do you mean by that?
- Harriet Oleson: Believe me, Mrs. Ingalls, I don't want to have to be the one to tell you; but since we're such good friends I feel I should be the one to tell you.
- Caroline Ingalls: Please, Mrs. Olsen...
- Harriet Oleson: Mrs. Ingalls, it upsets me so! I don't know why it is the wife is always the last one to know...
- Caroline Ingalls: I know! I know everything!
- Harriet Oleson: Did you know that Mrs. Thurman did not tell you the truth? Nor... nor did your husband.
- Caroline Ingalls: I know already...
- Harriet Oleson: Oh my Dear! You don't know the half of it. Now, I've been asking around, clearly out of concern for you, you understand. And I understand that your husband has been seen coming and going from the Widow Thurman's home every day for a week. Now, if I were you...
- Caroline Ingalls: Well, you're not me, Harriet! In the first place, it's none of your business! And in the second place, I know already! Thirdly, I trust Charles completely!
- Mary Ingalls: Come into my parlor said the spider to the fly.
- Laura Ingalls: What?
- Mary Ingalls: Just thinking about widows. Black widows. Pa was wrong. They are alike. They invite their prey into the parlor, and before they know it, they're trapped.
- Laura Ingalls: Just like Pa.