- Judy Bryant: I don't know how you do it!
- Helen Smart: Ah it's nothin'. Just charms, personality, good looks and brains. And if that doesn't work - a good kick up the bum.
- Judy Bryant: [laughs] I've gotta remember that one.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Birdsworth, haven't you got any work to do?
- Lizzie Birdsworth: Oh yes, Miss Ferguson. Only got a bit of a headache.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Headache? Oh come off it, Birdsworth. There'll be no slacking off while I'm on duty.
- Lizzie Birdsworth: Well, I just had a bit of bad news, you see. One of me old mates kicked the bucket and I hadn't seen him for ages.
- [pause]
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Nobody lives forever, Birdsworth. But I'm surprised you've got any friends left. I'd watch that headache, though. That's how it all starts.
- Lizzie Birdsworth: What?
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Oh, the beginning of the end. First your faculties, one by one. And then your body just packs up. But until it does, you'll do your work like everybody else. Now get on with it.
- Lizzie Birdsworth: [forlornly] Yeah.