The Secret Garden (1987 TV Movie)

Gennie James: Mary Lennox

Quotes 

• Mary : Dickon knows things no one else knows.

• Betty : Morning, Miss.

  Mary : Who are you?

  Betty : Betty. It's Martha's free day and she's gone to help her mother in the country.

  [Mrs. Medlock walks in] 

  Mary : Is your, uh, toothache gone?

  Betty : [confused]  Toothache?

  Mary : [smiling knowingly at Mrs. Medlock]  The toothache you didn't have.

• Colin : Will you stay with me Mary, please?

  Mary : Well, since you said please. But if you scream once more, I'll smother you with the pillow.

  Nurse : And she would, too.

• Nurse Boggs : I'm Master Colin's nurse.

  Mary : Then I feel sorry for you!

• Mary : Please might I have a bit of earth? To make a garden? I love gardens.

  Archibald Craven : [looking away]  There was someone... someone very dear... who loved gardens, too.

  Archibald Craven : [appears near tears and then abruptly changes tone]  Go now, leave me.

  Mary : [curtsies in relief and leaves]  Thank you.