- Jack Perkins: I hear Alice lives in the shed?
- Ada Guthrie: What of it? She's a damn sight safer out there where she hardly sees him than in there within his reach.
- Ellie Perkins: What do you say, Grammie? Will you tutor her?
- Bessie Morgan: Tutor her? Child, I don't think my house can survive tutoring her....
- Sammy Perkins: What did I do that was so wrong? You were embarrassed too.
- Ellie Perkins: I was embarrassed for her but I wasn't ashamed of no-one but you.
- Alice Guthrie: Why? Why am I not like everybody else? I want to be...
- Sammy Perkins: What? What you want to be?
- Alice Guthrie: I want to be a real girl...
- Bertha: That's great, Alice, What subjects are you studying?
- Alice Guthrie: I learn... reading and writing... I write letter to Sammy! And I learn... I learn twestion marks and commies too.
- Bertha: Really? Well, Sammy, did that letter have any "twestion marks" or "commies" in it?
- Alice Guthrie: I don't care, if everybody in the whole world laughs at my twestion marks and my commies.