Katherine MacGregor credited as playing...
Harriet Oleson
- Harriet Oleson: Well, it's just that we've become such close business associates and all that I think it would be putting unfair pressure on the man. Don't you see?
- Caroline Ingalls: Who is this man, Mrs. Olsen?
- Harriet Oleson: Mr. Sprague, of course. You can't expect the owner of the town's leading business establishment to ask for charity from the town banker. Can you?
- Caroline Ingalls: Well, I would have thought it would put you in a fine spot for a fine donation.
- Harriet Oleson: Well no. No, I'm sure... Well... No, I don't think it's proper.
- Caroline Ingalls: Well Mrs. Olsen, if you're afraid to ask Mr. Sprague, I'll be glad to ask him for you.
- Harriet Oleson: I wanted to meet you before you got the notion that there was absolutely nobody like you in the town.
- Ebenezer Sprague: Like me?
- Harriet Oleson: Mm hm.
- Harriet Oleson: Uh... educated people of quality and uh...
- [giggles]
- Harriet Oleson: ... substance. I uh... I come from a city also, Mr. Sprague, as I'm sure that you do.
- Ebenezer Sprague: Mrs. Olsen, I quit school when I was in third grade. My father was a farmer. I never saw a city until I was seventeen, and then I didn't like it. Now, if you have some business to transact, I'll be with you in just a moment just as soon as I finish with Mr. Ingalls.