- Dr. Charles Cartwright: Your father has made his bed, now he's got to lie in it.
- Dr. Tom Latimer: Yes, except it's my bed he's been lying in, and it has been for nearly three and a half months.
- Dr. Tom Latimer: I was eleven years old and he sat me down in the drawing room and asked me if I knew where babies came from. I said, "Yes," and he said, "Fine," and that was that.
- Dr. Charles Cartwright: At least you knew - that's more than I did at that age.
- Dr. Tom Latimer: Yeah, except I thought they came from Harrods. I thought everything came from Harrods in those days.
- Dr. Toby Latimer: Well, yes, five, quarter to five, what's the difference?
- Angela Latimer: About an hour and a half, it's now quarter past six-ish.
- Angela Latimer: Oh, darling, a dozen red roses. How sweet of you.
- Dr. Toby Latimer: Actually, there are only ten. Even the florist is gone metric.
- Dr. Toby Latimer: You know, I feel I've been through a long tunnel. As though the last three months I've been living in a void.
- Angela Latimer: Tom's flat isn't that bad.