- Mary Ingalls: Look what you did! You oughta be ashamed of yourselves talking to her that way! And she's gonna have a baby! You're awful! God will punish you! You'll see! You deserve it, all of it. God will punish you! I know he will!
- Laura Ingalls: Mrs. Coulter's nice.
- Mary Ingalls: Yeah.
- Laura Ingalls: She's pretty too.
- Mary Ingalls: She sure is.
- Laura Ingalls: It would be awful if she wasn't gonna have a baby.
- Mary Ingalls: What are you talking about?
- Laura Ingalls: Well, if she just had a giant stomach forever and ever.
- Mary Ingalls: That's silly. She'll have the baby and it'll go away.
- Laura Ingalls: Mrs. Ledbetter has a big stomach and it doesn't go away.
- Mary Ingalls: Mrs. Ledbetter isn't gonna have a baby. She just eats too much.
- Laura Ingalls: How can you tell the difference? I mean, how do you know if it's a baby or just too much supper?
- Mary Ingalls: Dr. Baker can tell. And Ma says the baby kicks inside.
- Laura Ingalls: Yuck. I know I don't want to have a baby!
- Mary Ingalls: Why not?
- Laura Ingalls: Well, it hurts enough when Willie Olsen kicks me on the outside. It must hurt twice as bad when you get kicked from the inside.
- Mary Ingalls: No it doesn't.
- Laura Ingalls: Why not?
- Mary Ingalls: Because the baby doesn't have shoes on.
- Laura Ingalls: Oh yeah.
- Lars Hanson: Listen, when you get scared, you strike out against your best friend. You call him a thief! You pick on a pregnant woman. And you make her sick so she almost loses her baby! Well, tell me what kind of a man does that? No man. Cowards! Cowards without backbones! You don't deserve good luck!