"The Gilded Age" A Long Ladder (TV Episode 2022) - Audra McDonald as Dorothy Scott

Arthur Scott : [struggling to get the meat from a crab leg] I am at war with this crab.

Dorothy Scott : I think you should surrender.

Arthur Scott : You think this is bad, you never ate with my Uncle William. He'd make you lose your whole appetite. He'd take a fork full of eggs, then dip that same fork into the jelly. I was always picking little bits of egg out of my jelly.

Dorothy Scott : Are you trying to ruin our luncheon?

Arthur Scott : He ruined my breakfast for years!
Arthur Scott : Dorothy... our responsibility is to raise a child with a sense of right and wrong. I cannot put that aside to play Happy Families.

Dorothy Scott : No. And it's not a game we are very well equipped for, is it?
Dorothy Scott : She's busy. That is better than being idle.
Dorothy Scott : What happened to him?

Arthur Scott : Oh... they, uh... they sold him away before emancipation came.
Peggy Scott : What's in the bag?

Marian Brook : Oh, well, I... I wanted to bring something useful. But I'm not sure they will be very useful after all.

Dorothy Scott : Can't we see? If you've brought it all this way...

Peggy Scott : Old shoes?

Marian Brook : I thought...

Dorothy Scott : What did you think, Miss Brook? That we would need cast-off shoes?

Marian Brook : I'm so sorry. I...

Audra McDonald: Dorothy Scott