- PC Peter Noakes: Is there any news?
- Sister Evangelina: It's a baby, not a lubricated penguin, they don't come sliding out, to order.
- Sister Evangelina: [about Sister Monica Joan] I remember when she took First Vows, chose her religious name, I thought she'd had her head turned by that film. We had a lot of that in the '40s. Young girls would come here and you'd wonder what brought them. Was it The Lord, the War, or The Song Of Bernadette? At least they came.
- [last lines]
- Mature Jenny: Nonnatus House was threatened, but its spirit was not shaken. And that spirit would continue to shelter and inspire.
- [Jenny looks at the picture of herself and Jimmy]
- Mature Jenny: I have never forgotten it, any more than I forget the days it gave me. The days when the world was new and bright. The days when I was delirious with joy. When I ached with love. And when my soul went questing.