- Pearl: [about Howard] He's striving to reach those parts that taller romantics can reach.
- Ros: But he can't really have any romantic ambitions left.
- Pearl: You'd be surprised.
- Edie: Well, *she* wouldn't be surprised. Our Ros has had too much experience of life to be surprised.
- Ros: There's always room for one more!
- Edie: At your age, I thought you'd have settled down.
- Ros: Edie, if I settle down any more they'll certify me dead.
- Howard: I bet you had a perfectly *normal* marriage, Cleggie.
- Clegg: Well, Sundays were OK. There was chapel, then a big dinner, and later you went for a walk.
- Howard: She can't always have been unexciting.
- Clegg: We had a pipe burst once.
- Howard: What about... passion?
- Clegg: Well, that was for foreigners. People without the seriousness that comes with strong tea and heavy puddings.
- Howard: Sensuality?
- Clegg: Hadn't been invented. This was before television. We used to listen to the radio. Saturday Night Theatre. Hm. There were murders and things , but, uh, fortunately nobody ever got made love to. You could go over the whole dial and never hear *anybody* being made love to.
- [last lines]
- Clegg: Mrs Avery all right is she?
- Tom: Oh, she's fine! It's me! I think I'm in real danger of settling down.
- Truly: I think you're in real danger of owing us seven pounds.
- Tom: Memory for details your friend 'as.
- Clegg: Exceptional eyesight too. For his age. Owes it all to mysterious police practices and organic vegetables.
- Tom: [looking down the stream] You think there's any fish in 'ere?
- Truly: We could ask.