- Cholmondeley: Think of it as like adding a baby to a marriage. All was ordered and calm and now there is this thing that demands attention. Stops you sleeping, belches, farts, screams... and she's going to make this whole process louder and wilder, more insane, more impractical.
- James Keziah Delaney: Go away, Winter.
- Winter: I'm not scared of you.
- James Keziah Delaney: What are you scared of?
- Winter: Of who they say you are.
- Atticus: Two possibilities. He sold you out, cos you cut off his thumb, or you cut off his thumb, cos you knew he was going to sell you out... Possibility one: reason... Possibility two: witchcraft.
- Dumbarton: It's as if the disease is not transmitted by air or miasma, but by false rumour.
- James Keziah Delaney: Then it is the same as religion. Or patriotism.