Geraldine Page credited as playing...
Martha
- Martha Farnsworth: If the pain gets too great, I'll ask Hallie to bring you some (wine).
- Cpl. John McBurney: Well, this does seem like a good occasion, and I would love some wine.
- Martha Farnsworth: It was offered for your pain, not for your pleasure!
- Cpl. John McBurney: To be sure, ma'am. It's just that sometimes the two go together.
- Martha Farnsworth: Removing the ligatures will be painful. Do you want some laudanum?
- Cpl. John McBurney: No thanks, kind lady! I'll fall asleep, and then just by chance, you might cut off my... other leg.
- Amy: I picked the mushrooms.
- Cpl. John McBurney: Mmm. And are they good, Amy. They taste of the woods and the clean air and mysterious shadows where pretty little elves dance together.
- Martha Farnsworth: How a romantic way to speak of mushrooms.
- Cpl. John McBurney: I've been at war a long time. Its been months since I've seen a woman's face. You'll find I'm easily amused.
- Martha Farnsworth: Get any ideas of trying to amuse yourself with any of the ladies in this house...
- Cpl. John McBurney: Well, wait just a minute.
- Martha Farnsworth: You'll find yourself out on that road so fast you won't know what happened to you!
- Cpl. John McBurney: I'm not that kind of man. You know that.
- Martha Farnsworth: I know nothing of the kind.
- Hallie: You figure dem Yanks gonna burn this place down?
- Martha Farnsworth: Hallie, don't talk that way. Its hard enough to get the girls to study as it is.
- Martha Farnsworth: [internal voice] If this war goes on much longer, I'll forget I ever was a woman.
- Martha Farnsworth: I'm afraid its some time since the Corporal had a bath.
- Hallie: I noticed. You ladies leave. I'll get some clean water and wash him down.
- Cpl. John McBurney: How long does it take you, ma'am, to get to know someone? To get to know me?
- Martha Farnsworth: You'll never find out. You won't be here that long.
- Martha Farnsworth: Hallie, you might shave Cpl. McBurney this morning. I'm tired of lookin' at that stubble.
- Cpl. John McBurney: I'd welcome some wine, though.
- Martha Farnsworth: You might welcome it; but, you won't get it. Undo your trouser leg.