- [Martin's mother has come from Portugal, begging for him to give her money]
- Margaret Ellingham: I have no home to go to. Your father died and left hardly any capital to speak of. I need some money, Martin. Just enough to buy a small apartment in Lisbon. Maybe £300,000. £200,000.
- Dr. Martin Ellingham: [coldly] I don't think so.
- Margaret Ellingham: You would see me homeless, destitute, cast out in the streets?
- Dr. Martin Ellingham: Of course not.
- Margaret Ellingham: Well, thank you.
- Dr. Martin Ellingham: I *wouldn't* see you. I'd have no further contact with you at all.
- [Martin is about to operate on a blood vessel in Louisa's brain]
- Dr. Martin Ellingham: I think I need your help.
- Louisa Glasson: If you need *my* help to perform an operation then we're *really* in trouble.
- Dr. Martin Ellingham: I don't need any help with this operation - I've done it seven times before. But I've never been married before. And I don't seem to be very good at it. I want to learn. Because I'd like to be much better at it.
- Louisa Glasson: And you tell me that just before you slice my head open?