- Lady Templemore: You will look after me by marrying John Bellasis. That is all I ask.
- Lady Maria Grey: I'm not sure how much I like him or whether he likes me.
- Lady Templemore: Fiddle-faddle! A young couple must learn to like each other. I didn't know your father when I married him. How would I? When we were never allowed to meet unchaperoned before the engagement? Even then, we might sit on a sofa, but never out of earshot of my companion. No young girl of our kind knows her husband before she marries him.
- Lady Maria Grey: And is your marriage to dear Papa to be the model that encourages me to accept a future with John?