"You boys should have saved some of that pamphlet money for a chair or two." (laughs warmly)

"Oh, that doesn't matter, dear. What matters is you put a bad dog away for good! Something the law had failed to do. AND you've earned your first paycheck!"

"Alfred Green asked for more blackberry marmelade again. Painter, dear, would you bring back some jars from town today? I told him he could pick them up at the market this weekend."