Raintree County1957

John Wickliff Shawnessy:
[On the riverboat with Susanna, visiting the South for the first time] You were right, Mrs. Shawnessy, I like your river. I really do. It even smells good.

Susanna Drake:
I knew that you'd understand it. Which is more than most Yankees do. Now, that's something I don't understand. 'Cause all you have to do is go South once and you LOVE it!

John Wickliff Shawnessy:
Well, to us Yankees, the South is not too easy to understand... You ever read "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

Susanna Drake:
[Shocked] "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? Phoo... I haven't married an abolitionist, have I?

John Wickliff Shawnessy:
That is the skeleton in my closet.

Susanna Drake:
Now, you mustn't joke about it.

Susanna Drake:
[Arranging a vast collection of dolls on her bed] Anyway, there's worse things than being an abolitionist.

John Wickliff Shawnessy:
Like what?

Susanna Drake:
Like having Negro blood in you. Isn't it funny? Just one little teeny drop and a person's all Negro. A person can't always tell, either.