- Caroline Ingalls: Miss Beadle, where are the children?
- Eva Beadle: I sent them home early.
- Willie Oleson: All but Nellie and me. We had to stay and wash the blackboards!
- Caroline Ingalls: When did they leave?
- Eva Beadle: Quite a while ago. They finished their work and they were so excited about Christmas and... they were only flurries when I left. I'm sure they had time to get home...
- Grace Snider Edwards: They've been gone a long time. It's gonna be pitch black before long.
- Caroline Ingalls: They could be on their way back here by now.
- Grace Snider Edwards: I had the strangest feeling when Henry came in. I watched Lottie hold him and I was angry. I was angry because it wasn't me holding my children. I know it was wrong of me to think that, but I couldn't help it.
- Lottie McGinnis: Where's my husband? They said he was with you.
- Jim Bowers: Well, he was, Mrs. McGinnis, but he went on looking for Henry.
- Lottie McGinnis: But Henry's here.
- Grace Snider Edwards: Isaiah and the children will be here any minute. He spent his whole life in the mountains. Why, this is just a little snowfall for him. You wait and see! He'll be here! He will! Just as soon as he can...
- Lottie McGinnis: [Background] Noooooooooo!