- [three German soldiers killed Foster-Smythe's housekeeper and lover in a deliberate hit-and-run last night; Major Freidel has just told him that his greenhouses are to be requisitioned by the Germans and that foreign workers are to be billeted at his house]
- Capt. Tom Foster-Smythe: [ironically] Well, gentlemen, you've deprived me of my living, kicked me out of my home and murdered my housekeeper. If that's all for this morning I'll take my leave of you.