- Nora Batty: [about a rumoured tiger] Well, I don't think there's anything round here that is a man-eater.
- Pearl: Well, I know one for a start.
- Glenda: What kind of man-eater?
- Nora Batty, Ros, Ivy, Edie: Drink your coffee!
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- Tom: Will you pack it in? The whole house is shaking. There's plaster falling off in there.
- Nora Batty: He's very forceful, your Tom.
- Mrs. Avery: He's unreliable. I think there's another woman.
- Nora Batty: There'd better not be another woman. You've got a good lass here. I've seen the way she looks after your house.
- Tom: Looks after it! She's shaking it to bits. Nobody can get any sleep.
- Nora Batty: It's time you married this good lass. Settle down.
- Mrs. Avery: He keeps saying he will.
- Tom: Aaaaaah, I'm working on it.
- Nora Batty: Has he promised you?
- Mrs. Avery: At least twice a week.
- Tom: Am I supposed to remember everything?
- Nora Batty: I'll get him settled down; I feel I owe it to his father.