- Reggie Pelham: We're not in a lifeboat, dear.
- Bumble Pelham: Well, I wish we were. At least we would have a keg of rum and some salt pork.
- Bumble Pelham: 'Practical, neat, doesn't make a lot of noise' - sounds more like a washing machine than a woman.
- Eva: In Norway during the war, I was meeting English soldiers. You were in the army?
- Tom Wright: Air Force.
- Eva: Ah, a pilot, up there, fighting the Germans...
- Tom Wright: Corporal, on the ground, fighting the WAAF.