- Tommy Beresford: [Tuppence asks Tommy to drive so she can continue reading her copy of Macbeth. Tommy chuckles in response] I was in Macbeth at my prep school. "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day."
- Tuppence Beresford: [gets in car on passenger side] I heard you were marvelous.
- Tommy Beresford: Who from?
- Tuppence Beresford: You.
- Tommy Beresford: Hmm.
- [gets in car and starts engine]
- Tommy Beresford: "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
- Septimus Bligh: Why do you drink?
- Tuppence Beresford: Why do you?
- Septimus Bligh: [Bitterly] Because life is empty of meaning.
- Septimus Bligh: You're after a drink? I recognize a fellow soak when I see one. Do you hide your bottles under hedges or behind books on bookshelves?
- Tuppence Beresford: Why do you drink?
- Septimus Bligh: Because life is empty of meaning.