- Professor Jason Cavendish: You said England was safe, but it isn't. It can't be. Because there isn't any sort of England that anyone of my generation would think he had inherited.
- Christabel Cavendish: I thought you were going to tell me something really important.
- Professor Jason Cavendish: So did I, but I just managed to avoid it.
- Professor Jason Cavendish: Now, what was it you wanted to talk to me about?
- Daniel Young: Treachery.
- Professor Jason Cavendish: Ah. By that you mean "loyalty," of course.
- Daniel Young: Oh, of course.
- Professor Jason Cavendish: Do you have a cigarette?
- Daniel Young: I didn't know you smoked.
- Professor Jason Cavendish: I don't. I burn.
- Professor Jason Cavendish: I was born into a class that loves only what it owns... and we don't own quite enough of it anymore.