- 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.
- Ben Weatherstaff: Killed in the war, Dickon. In a forest called the Argonne.
- Adult Mary: If Dickon had to die, he would have chosen a place with green and growing things.
- Ben Weatherstaff: To die so young...
- [sighs]
- Ben Weatherstaff: Who's to know?
- Adult Mary: Dickon knew.
- Ben Weatherstaff: [after a pause] Aye, Dickon knew.
- [last lines]
- Adult Colin Craven: When I was at Oxford, I asked you to marry me. When I was in France I wrote to you and asked you to marry me. Why didn't you answer me, Mary?
- Adult Mary: Because I wanted you to ask me here in our garden.
- Adult Colin Craven: [smiles] Of course. I should have known.
- [pause]
- Adult Colin Craven: Will you marry me, Mary Lennox?
- Adult Mary: Yes.
- [they kiss]
- Adult Mary: Come see our garden.
- Mrs. Lennox: I just have the most marvelous idea; after the governers ball why don't we go for a breakfast picnic along the river?
- People at table: Oh yes, yes, I'd like that very much.
- Mrs. Crawford: I don't think I should feel like a picnic after dancing all night.
- Mrs. Lennox: Nonsense.
- Mrs. Crawford: Besides, I shan't be going to the ball, Stephen has booked me a passage to England. He says there's some kind of plague in the provinces.
- Mrs. Lennox: Oh, there's always some kind of plague in the provinces, Mrs. Crawford. I wouldn't let that stop me from going to the ball.
- [rings servant bell vigorously and ominously no one responds]
- 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.