- [final words]
- Mature Jenny: [voiceover] In the East End I found grace and faith and hope hidden in the darkest corners. I found tenderness and squalor and laughter amid filth. I found a purpose and a path, and I worked with a passion for the best reason of all - I did it for love.
- Sister Julienne: I believe you've recently retired to Madeira, Lady Fortescu-Chumley-Browne?
- Lady Browne: No need to stand on ceremony Sister, Lady Browne will do.
- Sister Monica Joan: [being tended to] Jesus washed the feet of the disciples.
- Sister Evangelina: Yeah, I bet they weren't tramping all over Poplar, walking in dog muck and motor oil and worse.
- Chummy Browne: [arriving at the police station] I'm turning myself in. I'm guilty of criminal cowardice and robbing two people of something that would make them both very happy. I've decided it's time to be brave.
- PC Peter Noakes: I see.
- Chummy Browne: I hope so. Because underneath this raincoat, I am practically naked.
- [Sister Monica Joan has been found by the police, wandering on the banks of the River Thames, dressed only in her nightdress]
- Sister Bernadette: We don't know whether she has dementia or whether she's just wilfully eccentric.
- Dr. Turner: I understand. There are more medical treatises written about senile decay than you can shake a stick at. But I keep to one invariable diagnostic rule: if they're brought back by a policeman in their nightie, then they've got it.
- [first lines]
- Mature Jenny: [narrating] Newborns are always beautiful. They cannot fail to make the heart sing, for even the plainest faces are alive with promise. But I have always seen beauty in old age too. Light shines through the bone, exquisite even as it flickers, even as it flutters and dims towards the end.
- Mature Jenny: [narrating] Newlyweds are always beautiful. They cannot fail to make the heart sing, for even the plainest faces are alive with promise.