- [first lines]
- Billy: I saw Gavin Hinchcliffe yesterday.
- [pause]
- Billy: There's no need to get excited.
- Tom: Yesterday I was interviewing a bank manager.
- Truly: You, in a bank? Huh. Must have been a river bank.
- Billy: I bet I haven't seen Gavin Hinchcliffe since we were at school.
- Truly: Huh.
- Billy: He looked just the same.
- Clegg: Does it suit him, still being in short trousers?
- Billy: No, nervous and twitchy. He must have jumped three foot in the air when I clapped him on the back and said, "How do, Gavin?"
- Truly: I can understand that. It'd scare me on a sudden appearance, and I've got nerves of steel.
- Clegg: Pass.
- Truly: What I can't understand is what was Tom doing in a bank.
- Tom: I often go to a bank.
- Truly: Could one ask what for? It's not as if you had any chance of getting any money.
- Tom: It's like Wembley; you go for the atmosphere.
- [last lines]
- Gavin Hinchcliffe: Be reasonable, Miss Davenport. Rolling out of a van together should not be construed as legally binding.
- Gavin Hinchcliffe: The Big Freeze is coming!
- Clegg: Mrs Hinchcliffe due back is she?
- Gavin Hinchcliffe: I'm talking Global Warming!
- Truly: Oh, not just Miss Davenport?
- Lucinda Davenport: I gave up my night classes for him.
- Gavin Hinchcliffe: It's going to change the climate! We're going to lose the Gulf Stream!