- Dorothea Dix: Our mission grows, Miss Phinney. The war will not end soon.
- Mary Phinney: I fear that is so.
- Dorothea Dix: Fear? Oh, don't do that. The dark menace of the future makes cowards of us all, and the past is a thing which each of us must overcome in her own way. Is that not so, Baronness?
- Mary Phinney: Have I disappointed you?
- Dorothea Dix: Have you disappointed yourself?
- Mary Phinney: It has not been as I expected.
- Dorothea Dix: Oh. It never is.
- Dorothea Dix: Our mission grows, Miss Phinney. The war will not end soon.
- Mary Phinney: I fear that is so.
- Dorothea Dix: Fear? Oh, don't do that. The dark menace of the future makes cowards of us all, and the past is a thing which each of us must overcome in her own way. Is that not so, my dear Baronness?
- Dorothea Dix: ...We need places of mercy now more than ever. So, you must fight through it. The hardships, the resistance, the futility. There is nothing here without you.