- Lt. Harry Wyckham: [speaking down from horseback] Is there a problem?
- Mev. Potgieter: You're not strong enough to catch our men,
- [smiles grimly]
- Mev. Potgieter: so now you make war on us women.
- Lt. Harry Wyckham: I don't wish to hurt you.
- [re burning down the farmhouse:]
- Lt. Harry Wyckham: What we have done, is done for your own safety.
- Mev. Potgieter: [despondent laugh] Look! Look where your men have put us! If fighting should start, it is us women who will get hurt first!
- Sgt. Major Pattison: You should have told your men the war *is lost!* Fighting's useless, m'am. Sooner or later your men will starve, and then it will all be over.
- Mev. Potgieter: Do you think...?
- [breaks down, cries]
- Mev. Potgieter: You can't destroy our passion for freedom!
- Henk: It isn't a good idea to go off alone.
- Sanna van Elst: You think I'm just a child.
- Henk: You *are.* By yourself, like this.
- Sanna van Elst: You didn't think that this morning when I brought you food. Then it was all right to go off alone.
- Henk: That's true.
- Sanna van Elst: So why am I a child now?
- Henk: Sanna...
- [throws hands up in mock despair]
- Sanna van Elst: Ja?
- [said in mocking tone]
- Henk: [watches her as she goes to fetch water, playfully skipping as she does so] It's just that...
- [gets up]
- Henk: this isn't the safest place right now.
- Sanna van Elst: No place is safe in the world.
- Henk: Don't get smart with me, young lady. I'm old enough to be your father.
- Maria: [had been griping about her pregnancy making her a fat old hippopotamus] Sanna! You're not listening!
- Sanna van Elst: Maria... What's it like... with a man?
- Maria: It had white walls and rose bushes in the garden, and...
- Sanna van Elst: Maria, tell me...! Men are so big... and heavy.
- [shakes her head]
- Sanna van Elst: I wouldn't be able to breathe, I'm sure I wouldn't...
- Maria: [raises her eyes] Don't be silly! Of course you...
- [looks at Sanna sharply:]
- Maria: Does Henk have anything to do with these questions?
- [no answer from the young girl, just a pained expression]
- Maria: Sanna!
- Sanna van Elst: Yes.
- Maria: He didn't actually kiss you?
- Sanna van Elst: He didn't ask.
- Maria: Did you do anything else?
- Sanna van Elst: Put his arms around me.
- Maria: And then?
- Sanna van Elst: Nothing. We came back.
- Maria: [as her young friend starts disrobing in the stream] Sanna... what are you doing?
- Sanna van Elst: Swimming.
- Maria: Swimming?
- Sanna van Elst: Yeah. Charles and me always used to swim here.
- Maria: Charles? You didn't!
- Sanna van Elst: He didn't care. Once when we were swimming, all his friends came along too.
- Maria: You didn't mind?
- Sanna van Elst: I didn't have anything to show then.
- [camera only shows her bare feet stepping out of her discarded clothes]
- Pte. Stan Archer: [spots the young girl splashing about in the stream] Let's have a bit of fun.
- Pte. Watts: No, Stan. Come on, let's go back.
- Pte. Stan Archer: No.. come on!
- Pte. Stan Archer: [outside the barricade, rogue pretending:] I'm sorry to disturb you so late, Mum. I'm afraid I've had to shoot my two men. You might have heard the shots. And I've lost my way.
- Maria: [inside, Ma Van Elst tries to contain Maria] But it's the officer!
- Ma van Elst: Don't...!
- Pte. Stan Archer: All I need for the night is a little food...
- Pte. Watts: And the little *girl!* Give us the girl, Granny!
- Pte. Stan Archer: Yeah, Grandma! You can keep the pregnant one for yourself!
- [boisterous laughter as they try to force down the door]
- Young Mother: Mevrou Van Elst, asseblief, vra die Engelse vir behoorlike slaapplek, my baba kan nie hier bly nie. Hulle sal vir u luister.
- [translated: Madam Van Elst, please, ask the Englishmen for proper overnight quarters, my baby cannot stay outside. They will listen to you]
- Lt. Harry Wyckham: [after near-rape incident at riverside] I give you my word, Mum, that these men will be severely punished.
- Ma van Elst: Your word? Never again will I trust *the word* of an Englishman!