- Inchcape: [about Lord Pinkrose] Very decent chap, really, Pinkrose. It's just that he can't forgive the world outside Cambridge for not being Cambridge.
- Harriet Pringle: I wish I could share in Guy's faith in the Russians.
- Lawson: Guy's faith in everybody.
- Harriet Pringle: That's the problem. He's an atheist with a religious temperament so he believes in Russia: a home for little children, above, a bright blue sky.