- [last lines]
- Denise Cropper: Get out of my house.
- Lionel: What do you think I'm doing, getting ready to play pass the parcel?
- Denise Cropper: You've taken advantage of me; that's what you've done.
- Lionel: Now we really are in the realms of fiction, aren't we.
- Denise Cropper: Of all my guests, all the gentlemen that have stayed here, you are the only one, and now you're being unkind to me.
- Lionel: You're not losing anything, Denise.
- [pause]
- Lionel: It's just that I... can't. Look, it's probably stupid, but...
- [pulls pictures out of dresser drawer]
- Lionel: Who are this lot?
- Denise Cropper: People.
- Lionel: Well, call me suspicious, but why do I guess that they all have a pair of pyjamas with Macho Man printed across the chest?
- [the waiter has announced Alistair's order of champagne]
- Jean Mary Pargetter: What champagne?
- Alistair Deacon: The bottle in my room.
- Jean Mary Pargetter: You do have a thirst, don't you?
- Alistair Deacon: It's for us.
- Jean Mary Pargetter: In your room?
- Alistair Deacon: We can have it in your room, if you like.
- Jean Mary Pargetter: Look, Alistair, do I have to stamp "No" in big letters on your forehead?
- Alistair Deacon: Whatever turns you on.
- Jean Mary Pargetter: Well, I'll tell you what turns me on at this time of night. It's a comfortable bed and a good book.
- Alistair Deacon: Okay, fine. What shall we read?
- Jean Mary Pargetter: You should be a salesman, not a publisher. Are you always like this?
- Alistair Deacon: Oh, no. Sometimes I'm really pushy.
- [first lines]
- Headmaster: Hardcastle, so good of you to come out to the wild on such short notice.
- Headmaster: It's very kind of you to meet me, Master, but you really shouldn't have bothered.
- Headmaster: Oh, nonsense. Always enjoy railway stations. It's the only time I weigh myself, when I'm at a railway station. Car's this way. "My Life in Burma", isn't it, your lecture?
- Lionel: "My Life in Kenya" actually.
- Headmaster: So it is.
- Headmaster: Yes, the fellow who dropped out was going to talk about rail travel in Russia in the twentieth century.
- Lionel: Why did he drop out?
- Headmaster: Got knocked over by a bus, poor fellow.
- Lionel: Ironic.
- Headmaster: Mmmm, that's what I thought.