Kristopher Turner credited as playing...
Gad Hopkins
- Gad Hopkins: [to Tilly when she enters dressed for the party to be greeted by Gad and his parents] You must forgive us for staring. We are struck dumb. Praise more eloquent than any flattery.
- Gad Hopkins: [Tilly trips as they are dancing] Easy, girl.
- Mathilda Bassett: You're talking to me like I'm your horse.
- Gad Hopkins: A thoroughbred, no doubt.
- Mathilda Bassett: Gad!
- Gad Hopkins: Just follow me. You'll be fine.
- Mathilda Bassett: Your mother seemed unhappy when I walked in.
- Gad Hopkins: That's because she's feeling guilty
- Mathilda Bassett: For what?
- Gad Hopkins: Not accepting you sooner. It seems we both were rather late to come to our senses.
- Mathilda Bassett: You have always had my friendship.
- Gad Hopkins: Your friendship is not what I crave.
- Mathilda Bassett: You've completely changed.
- Gad Hopkins: I can see you haven't.
- Mathilda Bassett: I've matured more that it might first appear.
- Gad Hopkins: [Smiling tenderly] So I see.
- Mathilda Bassett: [quickly changing the subject] You've been away for decades. How many languages do you speak?
- Gad Hopkins: How are you, Tilly?
- Mathilda Bassett: There must be a more compelling topic.
- Mathilda Bassett: What on earth are you doing?
- Gad Hopkins: I had a grand time last night.
- Mathilda Bassett: So did I.
- Gad Hopkins: Come to tea?
- Mathilda Bassett: Have you gone insane?
- Isabella: I hope you don't treat all your suitors this way. Don't blame the poor boy. The idea was completely mine.
- Gad Hopkins: [dusting off the statue Tilly threw into the snow] Did you really dislike it that much? Everyone is looking for you. I knew where to find you.
- Mathilda Bassett: What possessed me?
- Gad Hopkins: You were angry.
- Mathilda Bassett: I shouldn't have taken Grandmother's part. It wasn't right.
- Gad Hopkins: Your mother was humiliating her.
- Mathilda Bassett: That isn't why. I want to go.
- Gad Hopkins: Go where?
- Mathilda Bassett: Anywhere. I've been wanting to go ever since my father died.
- Gad Hopkins: The world is not quite so grand a place as your grandmother claims.
- Mathilda Bassett: My father used to say I was born for adventure. Do you remember how the three of us would go to the woods? And he'd get us to imagine what it would be like, to be a mackerel in a lake or a bee in a hive?
- Gad Hopkins: [he kisses her] Don't go.
- Mathilda Bassett: Oh, Gad, I do love you.
- Gad Hopkins: Marry me.
- Mathilda Bassett: I'm not ready. I'm only at the beginning.
- Mathilda Bassett: [narrating as Mary reads the manuscript and Prudence and Solomon bring in wood] A long time ago up among the New Hampshire hills lived a man, his wife, and a pile of sturdy children. We were poor in money, but rich in land and love. The wide acres of wood, corn and pasture fed and clothed the flock, while mutual patience, affection and courage made our old farmhouse a very happy home.
- [Gad leaves his house running]
- Mathilda Bassett: For those who dream of adventure it may seem to simple a place to start our story, until we remember the best adventures begin with simple things. Not Gypsies or sword fights or dragons, but hope, and family, and love.
- Gad Hopkins: [the carriage carrying Tilly and Isabella is driving away and Gad is running after them] Hey. Hey! Write.
- Mathilda Bassett: I will. Every day.
- Gad Hopkins: I'll wait.
- Mathilda Bassett: You'd better.
- Gad Hopkins: I love you.
- Mathilda Bassett: Me, too.
- Mathilda Bassett: Give me your news.
- Gad Hopkins: [innocently] News?
- Mathilda Bassett: I see I shall have to torture you, Lord Stickywicket, if I mean to get at the truth.
- [slaps him with a pillow]
- Gad Hopkins: [stealing the pillow] Never, Madam Busybody! I shall die before giving up my secrets!
- [pillow fight ensues]
- Gad Hopkins: Are you all right?
- Mathilda Bassett: Gideon...
- Gad Hopkins: Don't. Don't talk about it.
- Mathilda Bassett: I must talk about it. Everything's all upside down. I was wrong to think of leaving. I see that now. I love you. And I love my family.
- Gad Hopkins: I was too forward.
- Mathilda Bassett: Do you love me?
- Gad Hopkins: What do you think?
- Mathilda Bassett: If we were married, how would we be?
- Gad Hopkins: Tilly.
- Mathilda Bassett: Could we live near my family, see them as often as we like?
- Gad Hopkins: They're family to me.
- Mathilda Bassett: Yes. My answer is yes.
- Mathilda Bassett: Don't be sad. You were gone five years. I won't be that long.
- Gad Hopkins: A minute is too long.