- Maj. Andy Pepperis: Gambler, gunfighter and now deserter?
- Bart Laish: Yeah
- Maj. Andy Pepperis: It looks like you added coward to the list.
- [Bart assumes the identity of Major Pepperis]
- Christella Burke: We're not moving?
- Bart Laish: Yes.
- Christella Burke: Tonight?
- Bart Laish: Tonight.
- Christella Burke: But we can't Major.
- Bart Laish: Why not?
- Christella Burke: The trip will be too hard on the wounded soldiers.
- Bart Laish: Miss Burke, back where I came from there happened to be dead soldiers.
- Maj. Andy Pepperis: It doesn't matter what you've been or what you've done. There must still be some good left in you. Or have you changed so much, Bart?
- Bart Laish: It's clearly common knowledge out here that most Indians do not like to fight at night. An Indian killed at night, they believe, wanders forever in darkness.
- Bart Laish: But after your father died, why didn't you go back home?
- Christella Burke: Delaware is small. It's crowded with too many memories.