Quotes
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Miss Matty Jenkyns : My sister does not care for the expression *suck*.
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Miss Matty Jenkyns : Miss Pole, have pity. The poor girl is distraught. And well might we all be with Jem Hearne dead and the town without a carpenter.
Miss Deborah Jenkyns : Speculation is the enemy of calm.
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[Mary has brought oranges as a present for Matty and Deborah]
Miss Deborah Jenkyns : I would prefer it if I did not enjoy oranges. Consuming them is a most incommodious business.
Miss Matty Jenkyns : There is not such a lot of juice, Deborah dear - only when they are sliced with a knife.
Mary Smith : At home we make a little hole in our oranges and we suck them.
[Deborah looks horrified]
Miss Matty Jenkyns : That is the way I like to take them best, but Deborah says it is vulgar and altogether too redolent of a ritual undertaken by little babies. My sister does not care for the expression
[whispers]
Miss Matty Jenkyns : "suck".
Miss Deborah Jenkyns : [primly] We will repair to our rooms... and consume our fruit in solitude.
[embarrassed, Deborah gets up and leaves the table]
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Miss Matty Jenkyns : You must gird your loins; it is all go in Cranford.
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[Mary Smith is coming to stay with Matty and Deborah Jenkyns and they are preparing her bedroom]
Miss Matty Jenkyns : Ought we to light a fire, do you suppose?
Miss Deborah Jenkyns : [horrified] A fire? Our guest gave us a deal of information in her letter, but I saw no mention of her being ill.
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Miss Matty Jenkyns : There will be a great deal to occupy your pen. I regret that you missed the incident just last week. A wagon of bricks had cause to drive down King Street and became lodged with a pit cart headed the opposite way.
Mary Smith : Were people hurt?
Miss Matty Jenkyns : No no no no, but there was talk of summoning the constable.
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Miss Matty Jenkyns : She wrote in such distress. There were exclamation marks.
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Miss Matty Jenkyns : Well, have you the leisure to speak to all of your patients in person, before the new young gentleman arrives?
Dr. Morgan : I'm afraid I have not, but I have had occasion to inform Miss Pole.
Miss Deborah Jenkyns : Miss Pole?
Dr. Morgan : I shall repair to my consulting room to write to all the rest, and they will know the news by teatime.
Miss Deborah Jenkyns : Or sooner, Dr. Morgan.
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Miss Deborah Jenkyns : [Opening a gift from Captain Brown] Oh, Captain Brown. This is highly individual.
Captain Brown : It's a coal shovel. Manufactured from oak, by myself.
Miss Matty Jenkyns : Oh, sister. A thing we have wished for for an age.
Captain Brown : Miss Deborah, I hope you will accept it. A token of my gratitude.
Miss Deborah Jenkyns : I assure you, sir. No such token is required. We are no longer merely neighbors. We are friends.
