- Vivian Kenway: [opens the door] Oh, I was expecting a friend.
- Jennifer Calthrop: You see your mistake...?
- Vivian as a Boy: I'm going to Eton later on.
- Coldstream Guardsman: Eton? Oh I say!
- Old Sweat: Eton's no joking matter old cock. Half the war cabinet came from there.
- Vivian as a Boy: Well they won the war for us, didn't they.
- Old Sweat: No. I'll tell you who's done that for you, if you like. Me. And 'im. The common fighting man. The most long-suffering bloomin' animal in 'uman creation. Forgotten in peacetime. A 'uman target in wartime. And bewitched and bewildered all the time.
- Lady Angela Parks: Vivian's obviously not fit for civilised society - can't you get him into the City, Robert?
- Vivian Kenway: Where's my father?
- Jennifer Calthrop: He's in the lounge with your aunt.
- Vivian Kenway: I wonder what's cooking.
- Jennifer Calthrop: Not the fatted calf, I'm afraid.
- Edwards: I've nothing against you personally Kenway.
- Vivian Kenway: Decent of you to say so.
- Edwards: It just that you're the last straw that's all. I'm sick and tired of teaching their jobs to gilded youths backed by influence and class privilege, and then watching them end up with better positions than my own.