- Nicholas Higgins: [about Thornton] He's a funny one. I can't make him out.
- Margaret Hale: Ah. Now you'll definitely be drummed out of the Union,for thinking not so badly about a master!
- John Thornton: I do not wish to posses you. I wish to marry you because I love you!
- Margaret Hale: Well you shouldn't, for I do not like you.
- John Thornton: [Amused] You did bring your brains with you to work today, Didn't you!
- Nicholas Higgins: Well I tried to keep them hidden,but you can't live without them all together.