- [Orin gives Ruth a large box]
- Orin McKnight: It's somethin' I bought you. It's a dress. The moment that Clara what's-her-name showed me a picture of it in a magazine, I could see you wearin' it.
- Ruth McKnight: It was very nice of you, Orin.
- Orin McKnight: I didn't get it on account of what happened yesterday. You can ask Clara. I ordered it three weeks ago... What's the matter?
- Ruth McKnight: Nothing. I'm going to try it on. I've been waiting four weeks - ever since I gave that magazine to Clara.
- Orin McKnight: It's my fault. It's all my fault what happened. I drove Stuart away like I did his mother. I'm a bullheaded man, Mr. Longley. I'm too bullheaded for my own good or for anybody. Big man, big ranch, big house - but it's a cold house, it's onery, it's a black house and Stuart could feel that.
- Bill Longley: I don't think he felt that way.