Karen Balkin credited as playing...
Mary Tilford
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: I don't believe this talk of jealousy between Miss Dobie and Miss Wright.
- Mary Tilford: But I didn't say she was jealous of Miss Wright. I said that Mrs. Mortar said that Miss Dobie was jealous of cousin Joe.
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: You look nice and healthy.
- Mary Tilford: Healthy? The way they make you slave around here, I'm lucky I don't have gray hair and rickets!
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: It's all for your own good.
- Mary Tilford: Everything I hate always is.
- Mary Tilford: They don't like to have us near them. They've got secrets or something.
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: There's nothing wrong with people having secrets.
- Mary Tilford: But these were funny secrets.
- Mary Tilford: One time, Miss Dobie was in her room late. It's right near ours. And Miss Wright goes in there almost every night - and stays late. That's why they want to get rid of us - of me, I mean. Because we hear things. That's why they're making us move our rooms. I've heard other things too. Plenty of other things. Strange, funny noises. And we've seen things too.
- Mary Tilford: Honestly, Miss Dobie does get mean and cranky every time Cousin Joe comes and yesterday I heard her say to him, "Damn you."
- Mrs. Amelia Tilford: You've picked up some very fine words, haven't you, Mary?
- Evelyn: Mortar said that Dobie was jealous and that she was like that when she was a little girl and she never wanted anybody to like Miss Wright and that was unnatural. Boy, did Dobie get sore at that.
- Mary Tilford: What did she mean by unnatural?
- Evelyn: Unnatural. "Un" for not. Not natural.