- Marjory: [finding Lee has bought chocolates for Iris] Chocolates? They won't do it for chocolates, you know. This isn't Berlin in 1945!
- Mrs Beevers: Nice looking young fella. Still, it'll take more than Dairy Box to erase the memory of Pearl Harbor.
- Mrs Beevers: Course it's all in the melting pot how isn't it? Foreign doctors, black vicars. The physio's Hungarian and Muriel over there, she has a home help that comes from Poland.
- Mr Beevers: Not every week?
- Old Iris: Are you one of these Japs? Only I didn't know I knew any Japs. You're not from our Gerald are you? He were in a Jap camp during the war. Came out a skeleton.
- Mrs Beevers: No - that's all done with now. They've turned over a new leaf. They make television sets.
- Factory Boss: A thought strikes me. Have you been sent here to check our fire precautions? Eh? No. Such subtlety is beyond the municipality.