- Kitty Allbright: I'd rather walk. Well, there isn't anybody else you could spare?
- Bill Hawks: 'Fraid not, Ma'am.
- Kitty Allbright: Seems like I have no choice, doesn't it.
- Bill Hawks: Looks like it.
- Flint McCullough: There's just one thing, Miss Allbright, I haven't said I'd take you.
- Kitty Allbright: All right, Mr McCullough, what do you want me to do?
- Flint McCullough: You can begin by asking me. Nicely.
- Kitty Allbright: Would you please ride with me to Mason Falls, Mr McCullough? I'd be very grateful.
- Flint McCullough: And I think it would be nice if you apologised for shooting me.
- Kitty Allbright: I'm sorry.
- Flint McCullough: You're sorry for what?
- Kitty Allbright: I'm sorry I wounded you.
- Flint McCullough: You mean you're sorry you only wounded me.
- Kitty Allbright: Frankly, Mr McCullough, I'm not sure.
- Flint McCullough: I'll get you the horse.
- Charlie Wooster: What happened, Flint? Somebody after you?
- Bill Hawks: The way you're riding, looks like there's trouble behind you.
- Flint McCullough: Close behind and the name is Kitty Allbright. Bill Hawks and Charlie Wooster.
- Kitty Allbright: The trouble with Mr McCullough is that he's lost his sense of humour, just because I tried to kill him.
- Flint McCullough: Miss Allbright is a nurse. She took a potshot at me, I think because she wanted someone to practise on.
- Bill Hawks: You know, Miss Allbright, he really is a charming fellow when you get to know him.
- Charlie Wooster: He's very popular with all the ladies too.
- Kitty Allbright: Not quite all of them.
- Flint McCullough: Well, I'm taking you to see Chris Hale. But, as I told you, it's his decision to make, not mine.
- Kitty Allbright: That's right, go ahead, hide your head in the sand. Don't make any decisions. You might just have to back them up.
- Flint McCullough: I'm not burying my head in the sand. It's not my decision to make. He's the wagon master, I'm not.
- Kitty Allbright: And if you were, would you understand what it is I want to do?
- Flint McCullough: I haven't made up my mind yet. I can't really make up my mind whether you want to duplicate the humanitarian achievements of Florence Nightingale or more interested in the recognition and notoriety that goes with it.
- Kitty Allbright: Then I thank heaven you're not the man I have to deal with.
- Flint McCullough: Well, you're the first woman whoever tried to shoot me in the back.
- Kitty Allbright: I'm sure that won't stop you, go ahead, don't leave any witnesses.
- Flint McCullough: You think I did this?
- Kitty Allbright: Well, it could've been you.
- Flint McCullough: Do you shoot first and ask questions later?
- Kitty Allbright: I got knocked unconscious when the stagecoach turned over. When I woke up, I saw that. Not in any mood to ask questions.
- Flint McCullough: Not that you asked. But my name is Flint McCullough, I scout for a wagon train that is camped three miles east of here.
- [He tends to his wound]
- Kitty Allbright: Well, that's nothing to make such a fuss about.
- Flint McCullough: I suppose I should like it, it's the first bullet that's nicked me all day.
- Kitty Allbright: Men are always the biggest babies about a little scratch.
- [He tears his sleeve to make a bandage]
- Kitty Allbright: You'd be better off with nothing on it, than to put that dirty thing on it. Hold still, I'll dress it for you properly.
- Flint McCullough: Aargh.
- [She snatches his makeshift bandage]
- Flint McCullough: I've never seen a doctor like you.
- Kitty Allbright: I'm not. I'm a registered nurse.
- Flint McCullough: What kind of nurse?
- Kitty Allbright: A registered nurse. Hold that, hold it. I'm a graduate of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing.
- Flint McCullough: I thought Florence Nightingale was in Europe.
- Kitty Allbright: London, I just came from there. There, that'll hold it. Any horses in your Wagon Train?
- Flint McCullough: Don't you think that's kind of a stupid question?
- Kitty Allbright: Not necessarily. Wagons are sometimes pulled by oxen. I couldn't see myself riding all the way to Mason Falls on a steer. Now if you don't feel you're too wounded to travel, let's bury these poor people.
- Flint McCullough: I'll send a detail from the train.
- Kitty Allbright: Good, then let's go. I can ride double. Would you please hurry. When the stage doesn't show up at Mason Falls, my parents are liable to worry about me.
- Flint McCullough: Why?
- Kitty Allbright: Because I'm their only child, and, strange as it may seem to you, they love me.
- Flint McCullough: Get behind the saddle.
- [He passes up her bags]
- Flint McCullough: You didn't tell me your name.
- Kitty Allbright: Kitty Allbright.
- Flint McCullough: All right, Miss Allbright, put your arms around me.
- Kitty Allbright: Why?
- Flint McCullough: Because if you don't, you're going to fall off.
- [Flint shows a rare flash of ill-humour]
- Kitty Allbright: A couple of days? Surely he left somebody in charge?
- Duke Shannon: Yes, would you like to talk to him?
- Kitty Allbright: I suppose I'll have to.
- Duke Shannon: Well, there comes the fellow now.
- [Flint appears]
- Kitty Allbright: Oh, no.
- Flint McCullough: People get set in their ways. They don't believe everything they're told. More particularly when they're told by a woman, particularly when she's young and beautiful.
- Kitty Allbright: I didn't think you'd noticed.
- Flint McCullough: Don't change the subject.
- [They continue their argument]
- Kitty Allbright: You're not an ignorant back woodsman.
- Flint McCullough: I didn't think you'd noticed.
- Kitty Allbright: Don't change the subject.