- [Roger has just hit Peggy across the face after she has intervened to prevent him hitting Rusty with a belt]
- Roger Dickinson: [seething with anger] I warned you to stay out of it.
- Peggy Dickinson: Yes, and now I'm warning you. If you ever - ever - lay so much as a finger on me or my children again, I will come after you. As God is my witness, I will kill you with my own bare hands. Do you hear me? I will *kill* you!
- Roger Dickinson: [sheepishly] I'm sorry. I lost my temper.
- [Peggy announces that she is leaving Roger and taking the children with her to Devon]
- Peggy Dickinson: If you were any kind of a husband, you'd come with us. And if you were any kind of a man, I'd want you to.
- Mrs. Dickinson: [outraged at the sound of Peggy and Roger arguing] What on earth's going on?
- Peggy Dickinson: We're leaving. Not that it's any of *your* business.
- Mrs. Dickinson: [taunting Peggy] So, off back to Devon, are we? I'd have thought that most of the Americans would have gone back home by now. I never even *looked* at another man after my Alfred was shot down.
- Peggy Dickinson: I don't think your Alfred *was* shot down, at all. I reckon he crashed that plane rather than come home to you.
- [to Roger and Mrs Dickinson, as she is leaving Roger]
- Peggy Dickinson: You deserve each other, d'you know that? As my mother used to say: "leastways it saves you spoiling *two* homes".