Sara Haden credited as playing...
Agatha Morgan
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: Who is that child?
- Mary: She's the adopted daughter of Captain January, the lighthouse keeper. Isn't she a pretty little thing?
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: Does she go to school?
- Mary: Well, no. You see, the former truant officer wasn't very strict.
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: That's why she's the former truant officer. You schoolteachers will find me strict enough.
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: You should be taken home and spanked! What kind of man is this Captain January to allow you to run around?
- Helen: Cap's the finest man in the whole world! See that lighthouse down there? Well, Cap owns it... He saved a million ships in his day.
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: You go right home and tell him I'm coming to have a talk with him.
- Helen: Yes, ma'am. I'll bet SHE can't spit a curve in the wind.
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: Don't be impudent!
- Helen: I didn't mean to be! Cap always tells me to be polite to old ladies.
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: There is a compulsory education law in this state, and this child is old enough.
- Helen: How can she know how old I am? We don't even know ourselves.
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: From what I've observed, this child is being brought up completely without control. She's rude and undisciplined, like a little heathen. Look at the clothes she wears. Not even a dress!
- Capt. January: What business is that of yours? Star is mine!
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: You forget that Star is adopted, Captain January. It's well within the power of the school authorities to have her taken away from you and placed in an institution.
- Capt. Nazro: Star can read writing and write reading better than any six-year-old on this coast.
- Capt. January: Any six-year-old? Why, there ain't no seven- or eight-year-old that knows as much as Star. I've been learning her from the two best books there is, The Bible and Bowditch.
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: Bowditch? A book on navigation? Fine reading for a child of six!
- Capt. Nazro: Any objections to The Bible?
- Capt. January: There ain't no better reading in the world than The Bible and Bowditch. They both learn you to steer a straight course.
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: Disreputable sailors, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves, teaching a child to behave this way!
- Helen: Don't be mad at them. They always have fun with me like this. Did you know that Captain Joe Ross can spit 15 feet in a 20-mile gale?
- [Captain Joe Ross smiles at Mrs. Morgan]
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: Indeed!
- Helen: And the skipper, the one with the accordion, once he killed three men with a table knife!
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: There seems to be some doubt about the child's age. You say she has the learning of a child of eight. Very well, we'll call her eight.
- Helen: Maybe I'm only six.
- Capt. January: I'll stand on eight.
- Deputy Sheriff: I've got an order here to produce that child before Judge Thompson.
- Capt. January: All right, when do you want her?
- Deputy Sheriff: Tomorrow afternoon at three.
- Capt. January: All right, we'll be there.
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: You take that child right now! Don't you understand he's trying to sneak her out of the jurisdiction of the court?
- Capt. Nazro: He's trying to do no such thing!
- Mrs. Agatha Mogan: Then why is he on this boat? Officer, you're responsible for the custody of the child!
- Deputy Sheriff: Maybe you're right. I can't take any chances.
- Helen: Oh, Cap, don't let them take me away!