Melissa Sue Anderson credited as playing...
Mary Ingalls
- Mary Ingalls: I want you to go.
- Chris Nelson: What?
- Mary Ingalls: I want you to leave here and never come back.
- Chris Nelson: I don't understand.
- Mary Ingalls: Yes you do.
- Chris Nelson: No Mary, I don't.
- Mary Ingalls: You love my mother, don't you?
- Chris Nelson: Mary, I uh...
- Mary Ingalls: Just answer my question. You love my mother.
- Chris Nelson: Mary, your Mother is a fine woman.
- Mary Ingalls: You don't have to tell me about my Mother. Just answer my question.
- Chris Nelson: [Long pause] I'll be gone by morning.
- Nellie Oleson: When the cat's away, the mice do play. Isn't that what Mother said?
- Willie Oleson: I wonder what it means.
- Nellie Oleson: I don't know. Do you know what it means, Mary?
- Mary Ingalls: What?
- Nellie Oleson: Oh no you wouldn't. You're too young.
- Willie Oleson: Well, what's it mean?
- Nellie Oleson: Shut up! I bet your mother knows.
- Laura Ingalls: What's she talking about?
- Mary Ingalls: Nothing. Just eat your lunch.
- Nellie Oleson: Some folks call it monkey business.
- Willie Oleson: I know what that is. It's when a monkey goes...
- Nellie Oleson: Shut up! I bet even Mary knows what monkey business is. Don't you, Mary? Think hard. Monkey business... monkey business... monkey business...
- [Mary slaps Nellie]
- Laura Ingalls: Then why'd you hit her?
- Mary Ingalls: Because I felt like it.
- Laura Ingalls: Oh.
- Mary Ingalls: And I don't want to talk about it anymore.