What is the dialogue part of the short story "The Leap" by Louise Erdrich?

This is an interesting question because there are no
direct dialogue passages in "The Leap." There are, however, indirect dialogue passages.
Dialogue is the exchange of direct comments between characters or in directly stated
monologue that are indicated by quotation marks, some call them inverted apostrophe
marks. Here is a random example of direct
dialogue:

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Tat the cat said, "I should like Christmas
pudding."

Oscar, the big black cat with the large yellow eyes, said,
"We shall be sure to supply you with some when the time
comes."

Indirect
dialogue is when the narrator or a character says that someone said
something. Here is another random example, this time of indirect
dialogue:

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Tat the cat faced Oscar, the big black cat with
the large yellow eyes, and told him how very much he should like Christmas pudding.
Oscar, having a heart as large as his eyes, replied to Tat that he should glady be
supplied with Christmas pudding when the time
came.

You can see in the
second random example that we receive the same information (plus the narrator's comment
on Oscar), but the dialogue that is being reported is embedded in the
narrator's words. Indirect dialogue can also be embedded in a
character's words, like in this other random
example:

"I
was speaking to Tat," said Oscar, the big black cat with large yellow eyes, "and learned
that he should like Christmas pudding. I told him that he shall surely have it when the
time comes."

In "The Leap,"
the dialogue is indirect and of the
style of the second random example. The
narrator, Anna's daughter, relays to the reader what those
speaking said, but she does this through her own voice, just as the random narrator
above relays what Tat and Oscar said. Here are a couple of examples of
indirect dialogue from "The Leap":

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They laughed and flirted openly as they beat
their way up again on the trapeze bars.

when I opened the window she
told me to raise it wider and prop it up with the stick so it wouldn't crush her
fingers.

my mother asked him to unzip her dress. When he wouldn't be
bothered, she made him
understand.

There are other
examples of indirect dialogue in "The Leap." Just look for the bits where someone's
conversation is suggested. Also, Erdrich uses this technique so effectively that she
evokes the mental image of the conversation ongoing.

[Tat
the cat and Oscar, the big black cat with the large yellow eyes, are the creation of
Audrey Titcombe (author), Bill Titcombe (illustrator). The random dialogue is my own
invention.]