- Dr. Robert Richardson: Your Lordship, I insist this girl obeyed an impulse older than the laws of man: the instinct of a mother to protect her child.
- Dr. Robert Richardson: Hello, Aggie. You got back all right?
- Aggie McDonald: Wouldn't be here if I hadn't, would I?
- Dr. Robert Richardson: Is your sister better?
- Aggie McDonald: Yes.
- Dr. Robert Richardson: Did she have a good doctor?
- Aggie McDonald: Don't have any. Doesn't believe in them.
- Dr. Robert Richardson: Well, that's the right attitude as long as one can afford it.
- Locky McCormick: [to the trembling Belinda as he is about to rape her] Your heart's poundin'. I caught a sea gull once. It had the same scared look.
- Dr. Robert Richardson: Mac, they're saying in the village that I'm Johnny's father. It's believable. When they don't know the answer, they make up one. I've been around this place a lot - at all hours. I've been thinking about this for a long time. I've even thought of your leaving here. But that wouldn't prove anything, giving up something you've worked for all your life. I know of only one solution: for me to marry Belinda. That would *really* give them something to talk about. And pretty soon the gossip would die down, for good.
- Black MacDonald: You're bein' generous, but it won't do. You see, she kind of feels things, and people, with her insights. You don't love her. You only feel a kind of pity for her. You'd hurt her worse than if you hated her.
- Dr. Robert Richardson: You make me feel pretty cheap. For a while there I guess I was thinking I was... quite a guy.
- Black MacDonald: You're one of the best I've run across. Sometimes you can be *too* good - harm others while doin' it.
- Locky McCormick: Where are you going?
- Black MacDonald: With you.
- Locky McCormick: Well, where to?
- Black MacDonald: Wherever you're going.
- Locky McCormick: Why?
- Black MacDonald: To tell them.
- Locky McCormick: To tell them what?
- Black MacDonald: What ya' done. So they'll know how low a man can get.
- Locky McCormick: You'll tell them nothing.
- [throws him to the ground]
- Stella McCormick: He's a... something even you can't pronounce!
- Locky McCormick: Probably something not fit to mention.
- Dr. Robert Richardson: I have to get cash somewhere, and you and some of the others are the only ones who can afford it.