Jill Ireland: Marian Starett

Quotes 

• Rufe Ryker : No, I've been thinking about you people. About the way you're scratchin' to make out here. Barely making it month to month. Not living in a proper home.

  Tom Starett : This home is proper enough for us.

  Rufe Ryker : I don't mean it that way, Starett. It's just that, if we could all learn to do more cooperatin', it would be better.

  Tom Starett : We don't want to cooperate with you, Ryker!

  Marian Starett : Tom!

  Tom Starett : Well, honey, can't you see it's a trick?

  Marian Starett : All I can see is Mr. Ryker is trying to help matters. And you're trying to keep them in the sorry state they're already in.

  Rufe Ryker : Thank you, Mrs. Starett. I appreciate your feelings. I'm glad there's somebody here agrees with me, understands what I'm trying to do.

• Rufe Ryker : Well, Mrs. Starett, I do appreciate it, that meal. I don't mean just the cookin'. Well, when you eat in a bunkhouse with a lot of men, it ain't the same as home cookin', a woman tendin'.

  Marian Starett : Well, maybe we did achieve something tonight, Mr. Ryker. I found out you're not an ogre, but a man who can be pleasant and charming. And I'll try to remember that in the future.

  Rufe Ryker : Kind words, Mrs. Starett.

  Marian Starett : True words, Mr. Ryker.

  Rufe Ryker : [Taking her extended hand]  Rufe.