- Lucinda: Simon wants to know if you can get the ring road plan scrapped, Rita.
- Rita Simcock: Tell him, no, I can't get it scrapped.
- Lucinda: No, she can't get it scrapped.
- Simon: Damn!
- Lucinda: Damn!
- Ted Simcock: Thank you, Simon.
- Simon: What on earth for?
- Ted Simcock: Because every time I meet you, I get to thinking my two aren't such berks after all.
- Jenny Simcock: Don't start to give *me* moral lectures, Simon. Are you and Lucinda so morally pure yourselves?
- Lucinda, Simon: [smugly] Yes.
- Elvis: [reprovingly] Simon?
- Lucinda: Apart from Simon's isolated lapse - which he's told me all about and I've forgiven.
- Jenny Simcock: And no lapses at all in your past, Lucinda?
- Lucinda: Unfashionably for this day and age, no. In eighty-seven days' time, Simon will be the first person in the world to know my body.
- Simon: We *were* planning to invite you both.
- Elvis: I'll watch with interest. I may even be able to give you a tip or two!