- Lord Desham: We're cut from the same strip of cloth, you know, you and I? The sort of forlorn people that do extra duty on the holidays... so someone else can celebrate.
- Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris: Hah! Maybe you're forlorn.
- Lord Desham: Where'd you spend Christmas?
- Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris: On another roof.
- [On London's night time bombing watch]
- Lord Desham: In case of accident or death, notify whom?
- Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris: My lawyer.
- Lord Desham: Mmmm. Same here. Freaks! That's what we are, a tad of freaks.
- Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris: Nonsense!
- Lord Desham: Halfway through life and the warmest high we can produce is a paid fellow that does our business for us.
- Lord Desham: You see, we forlorn middle-aged people come in two varieties. The ones who never care, and the ones who care much too much. The others - the wise ones, are hard to compromise. They're very happy with their second wife or third husband or someone.
- Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris: And we're alone.
- Lord Desham: Oh, one does make a choice, of course. One slams the door on one's mind - at least I did. Slammed it and shut all the bolts.
- Lord Desham: I suppose you cared a hang for anyone in your life?
- Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris: Do you indeed?
- Lord Desham: Ah! Gotcha that time.