- Duke Shannon: The thing is, there is a woman that might be your daughter.
- Bill Hawks: At Fort Cameron?
- Duke Shannon: No, Bitter Springs.
- Charlie Wooster: Bitter Springs. The only woman there...
- Bill Hawks: Charlie!
- Charlie Wooster: Yessir
- [and he is silenced]
- Charlie Wooster: I should have stayed in town with Duke. The two of us could've shook the truth out of that banker. You know how those bankers are. All they think about is money. No thought to human feelings at all.
- Bill Hawks: Why don't you water your stew?
- Charlie Wooster: I was just trying to cheer up Patrick.
- Bill Hawks: You're about as cheerful as a circling buzzard.
- Eve Newhope: You ask me what I think, and when I tell you, you don't like it because it's the truth.
- Paul Leighton: Ryan's in town.
- Eve Newhope: Aha, that means a noisy night.
- Paul Leighton: He acts like he has some kind of claim on you. I don't know why you put up with him.
- Eve Newhope: I don't take Ryan seriously though, that's the only way to get on with him.
- Paul Leighton: [She sings and dances to the music from her new music box] The yon May moon is beaming love. The glowworms' lantern is gleaming love. How sweet the rose through Marner's Grove where the drowsy world is dreaming love. Then awake the heavens, look bright, my dear. 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear. And the best of always to lengthen our day is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear.
- Eve Newhope: Grubstake, you've been spending entirely too much time with your jackass and it's plain he's had a bad influence.
- Dan Ryan: What a wonderful old guy. He deserves the best. I'm glad we didn't let him down.
- Eve Newhope: Well, you'd better go and tell the committee in charge of giving him what he deserves that they may have to produce three grandchildren.
- Paul Leighton: Her ranch is at the foot of Devil's Hill.
- Dan Ryan: She's ninety and still makes her own liquor.
- Eve Newhope: And drinks it.
- Dan Ryan: You know, I've, ah, been thinking. I, ah, kinda liked the feeling I had when I was supposed to be your husband,
- Eve Newhope: You know you were very convincing.
- Dan Ryan: Why couldn't it work out that way? I mean, well, doggone it. Marry me.
- Eve Newhope: Don't worry about it, Father. I think my reputation can survive one night in a place like this.
- Charlie Wooster: What'll the Oasis be without her?
- Grubstake Malloy: She's the only reason Bitter Springs wasn't a cemetery a long time ago.
- Bill Hawks: You know, Eve, Charlie and I know your father real good. He talked to us more than anybody else on the train. He's an old man. He doesn't have too much to be proud of, except you. And that dream he's been carrying for twelve years acrossed an ocean and two thirds of this country. You can't take that away from him.
- Paul Leighton: Eve, you're the gentlest and most compassionate human being I've ever met. You've fed and nourished the dreams and hopes of every man here. You can't do less for your own father.
- Eve Newhope: You all think I should do this?
- Bill Hawks, Paul Leighton, Charlie Wooster, Orv Bassett: Sure, yes, yes.
- Eve Newhope: All right, for the little while he's here, I'll try to be the woman he wants me to be.