Ellen Corby credited as playing...
Miss Mary Stevens
- [Wesley has stolen Marjorie's letter to Bill for his homework]
- Miss Mary Stevens: Wesley Winfield, you may read your letter.
- Wesley Winfield: But ma'am...
- Miss Mary Stevens: [sternly] You may read your letter!
- Wesley Winfield: Yes, ma'am.
- Miss Mary Stevens: Have you prepared one?
- Wesley Winfield: Yes, ma'am.
- Miss Mary Stevens: But, uh, you're going to find out that you've forgot to bring it, aren't you?
- Wesley Winfield: [takes the letter out of his schoolbook] No, ma'am, I got it.
- Miss Mary Stevens: Well, we'll listen to what you've found time to prepare. For once.
- [Wesley stands in front of the class and reads "his" letter aloud]
- Wesley Winfield: "Dear friend, you called me beautiful, but I'm really not beautiful, and at times, I doubt if I'm even pretty. Though my hair may be beautiful and if it is true that my eyes are like the blue stars... in... Heaven..."
- [the class laughs]
- Miss Mary Stevens: [to Wesley] Go on.
- Wesley Winfield: [to himself] Oh no...
- Miss Mary Stevens: Proceed!
- Wesley Winfield: "A-A tremor thrills my being when I recall... your... last words to me... that last... that last..."
- Miss Mary Stevens: [impatiently] Go on.
- Wesley Winfield: "That-that last... evening... in... the moonlight when you... you..."
- Miss Mary Stevens: Wesley, you will go on. And you will stop that stammering!
- Wesley Winfield: "You-you kissed my shoulder and-and said that you would like to love me forever and ever... and ever... and ever..."
- Miss Mary Stevens: Wesley...
- Wesley Winfield: "A-And that if you believed in marriage you would... want me to... Yours respectfully, Wesley Winfield."
- [Wesley quickly sits back down, embarrassed, while the class laughs at him]
- Miss Mary Stevens: [to Wesley] Now, do you know the difference between a proper and improper fraction? Wesley, if you don't pay attention, you'll never learn.