- [first lines]
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: And just how did you manage to do that, Patterson?
- Lexie Patterson: Well I... hung them up in my dorm and then I forgot they were there...
- Nora Flynn: [interrupting] I knocked them over.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Clumsy aren't you, Flynn? Must have pretty long fingernails too.
- Mervin Pringle: Well?
- Joyce Barry: It's fine. Fine.
- Mervin Pringle: See I was right. I was right. The meat is like leather, the vegetables are over cooked. It's a mess. Even you could have done it better!
- Nora Flynn: [Reb has just spotted Willie at the piano] That's Willie. Something wrong?
- Reb Kean: I remember someone... used to play the piano. A big woman with grey hair...
- [Lexie storms in]
- Lexie Patterson: Willie, you old tart, you said you'd come and do the sewing.
- [noticing Reb]
- Lexie Patterson: Hi. I'm Lexie.
- Reb Kean: Oh... I'm... uh...
- Lexie Patterson: Yeah. I know who you are.
- Lexie Patterson: That's Reb Kean?
- May Collins: Well, if she's not legit then she's a bloody good faker.
- Reb Kean: I think I know you.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Of course you do, Kean. We're old mates; we go back a long way.
- Nora Flynn: You're a bitch, Kelly. We both know you did it.
- Lou Kelly: Sure we do. But you try proving it.
- Nora Flynn: Lexie's an ungrateful little bitch, sure. But at least she's trying to make something of her life.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: [menacingly] You're not nervous, are you, Kean? Because if you are I can always take you to Sister Hall, and she can give you an injection to calm you down.
- Reb Kean: No... no... I'll be alright. I'll get used to it
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: That's the spirit. You can get used to anything in here.
- Reb Kean: Ray, the cook. Where's the cook?
- Daphne Graham: Oh there's no Ray here. Merv's our cook...
- Willie Beecham: [patronisingly] You met him this morning in the dining room with Mrs Barry?
- Reb Kean: Yeah... don't remember.
- Willie Beecham: No. Of course you don't, dear. Now how would you like to chop some vegetables for me while you figure it out? You do remember vegetables, don't you?