Colette O'Neil: Ruth Winter

Quotes 

• Ena Sharples : Fairclough and Booth finished your cocktail bar yet?

  Ruth Winter : It's a soft drinks bar, Mrs. Sharples.

  Ena Sharples : It's still a bar isn't it? Not Refreshments will be served in the interval - a bar, that's what you've called it.

  Annie Walker : Well, Mrs. Sharples, it's in the modern idiom, so to speak.

  Ena Sharples : Oh, I see, it's in the modern idiom is it? D'you know what modern means?

  Annie Walker : Up to date, like some of us try to be.

  Ena Sharples : Modern is a word for whitewashing muck with: modern morals, modern marriage, modern society. I've heard the word all me life and it gets more sinful every year.