- Reverend Candy: [incovenient visitor] Hello, Primrose.
- [wedding ceremony arrangements with prim society matron Mrs Arkwright]
- Primrose: Hello, Mr Candy.
- Reverend Candy: Um... how... may I help you?
- Primrose: I was wondering if you would listen to a poem?
- Reverend Candy: Ah, I'm afraid we're a little bit busy at the moment, but...
- Primrose: [quoting Elizabeth Barrett Browning] Love me sweet with all thou art, feeling, thinking, seeing... Love me in the lightest part, love me in full being.
- Reverend Candy: We'll look at it later, Primrose. Uh, good day, Mrs Arkwright. Shall we say tomorrow at, uh, six o'clock?
- [she leaves, but he remains flustered by Primrose's presence]
- Primrose: Why, Mr Candy, you've gone quite red.
- Reverend Candy: I'm not surprised, Primrose. Mrs Arkwright is chairman of the local watch committee.
- Primrose: Then we'll give her something to watch.
- [her hand brushing playfully against his jacket]
- Reverend Candy: [ducks away even as the lady walks off] Don't! Oh... you're making things very difficult. Come on.
- [he steers her off]
- Primrose: [knowing full well the effect she has on him] Love me sweet with all thou art, feeling, thinking, seeing... Love me in the lightest part, love me in full being.
- [he is even more flustered now]
- Ma Larkin: [at dining room table] How's the vicar these days?
- Primrose: [feigning] How should I know?
- Ma Larkin: Because you seem to have become the poor man's shadow these last few weeks.
- Primrose: [adamant] I have not.
- Ma Larkin: [smiles] I worry about Mr Candy. He looks so thin. He needs fattening up.
- Primrose: [brightening up] Do you think so?
- Ma Larkin: He needs a good woman to look after him. You know what they say? The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
- [giving Primrose an idea]