- Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder: I didn't realize how late it was.
- Charles Philip Ingalls: Alright, upstairs now! GO ON!
- [Laura goes up to the loft, Charles follows]
- Charles Philip Ingalls: Alright, young lady, suppose you tell me where you've been!
- Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder: I was walking.
- Charles Philip Ingalls: You were walking? Not towards home, I take it. I can't hear you!
- Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder: No, sir.
- Charles Philip Ingalls: Then where were you walking?
- Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder: By the lake.
- Charles Philip Ingalls: Do you have any idea how upset we get when you just disappear?
- Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder: Yes, sir. I'm sorry.
- Charles Philip Ingalls: Well 'sorry' isn't enough. Now I haven't given you a whippin' in a long time and I think I've been making a mistake.
- Laura Ingalls: I knew I'd never see my Grace again, and my life would never be the same. For I had learned what it is to love a baby, all because of a bottle that floated down a creek and into my heart. I pray that one day, I'll have a baby of my own. My very own.
- Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder: [having found a baby] Oh my, you need to have your panties changed, don't you, baby? Well, all I've got is a towel, but it's clean. Now don't you cry. Be a good little...
- [looks discreetly at baby's privates and smiles]
- Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder: ... girl.
- Harriet Oleson: It's your responsibility to discipline the boy, now you...
- Nelson "Nels" Oleson: Alright, alright. Willie, were you or were you not looking at the corset ads in the catalogue?