- Miss Higgins: ...And I also called in at Nonnatus House and collected some slacks and blouses for you. Simple, easy garments suitable for light exercise within a convalescent context.
- Nurse Phyllis Crane: I haven't been ill, Miss Higgins, merely immobilised. When they let me out of here, I shall be sprinting down the commercial road like Ann Packer.
- Sister Monica Joan: I cannot discern whether you are dusting or at prayer. Whichever should be the case... I deduce you are not succeeding.
- Sister Frances: [Shakes her head] I'll get better at it.
- Sister Monica Joan: From experience, I would advise that you will not. But you will become more patient and therein know true grace.
- Cyril Robinson: [Cyril and Sister Monica Joan enter a room with several women including Nurses Anderson and Franklin in various stages of dress] Good evening, ladies.
- [Nurses Franklin and Anderson hide]
- Sister Monica Joan: None of them were déshabillée... when I was summoned by the bell.
- Nurse Lucille Anderson: [to Cyril] What in the good Lord's name are you doing coming around here without notice?
- Maureen: Elsie Dyer might be your grandmother, but she's got family all over this borough. She's my mother's aunt.
- Nurse Valerie Dyer: I know that.
- Maureen: Oh. You know all sorts of things. Valerie nose-in-the-air, up-my-own-backside Dyer.