- Mrs Oldknow: You do understand death is not the important thing?
- Tolly: What is, then?
- Mrs Oldknow: Whether you were loved or not.
- Tolly: She doesn't think things will ever be normal again.
- Mrs Oldknow: Oh, yes, well, a different normal but normal.
- Mrs Oldknow: I offered to send him to a proper school. I was happy to pay for his whole education but, of course, she wouldn't hear of it.
- Mrs Tweedie: Why not?
- Mrs Oldknow: She didn't want him taught to look down on her.
- Tolly: Granny, why are called Mrs Oldknow? If you grew up here, shouldn't you be Mrs something else?
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- Fred Boggis: [late for picking the boy up from the railway station] I thought it came a quarter past. They said a quarter past.
- Tolly: Well, they were wrong.
- Tolly: I don't think I'm scared. I don't know what I feel exactly.
- Mrs Oldknow: Good! Very few people realize they don't know what they feel until they're at least 40.
- Captain Oldknow: The truth is, my dear, we are not well met.
- Maria Oldknow: Which is my fault, I presume?
- Captain Oldknow: The fault... is with neither or both of us. We thought we could be happy, but we're not, and it's too late now for regrets.