- Dr. John Hughes: Gentlemen. One moment! I have an announcement. The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings...
- Hotel Manageress: Good evening Professor - did you enjoy your constitutional?
- Professor Kerris Bowles-Ottery: Yes indeed, very bracing. I've worked up a good appetite for dinner.
- Hotel Manageress: Dinner is at seven sharp if you don't mind.
- Professor Kerris Bowles-Ottery: Seven? That's a bit early for my gastric juices.
- Hotel Manageress: If you don't mind though. The cook leaves at eight and she has the washing up to do before she goes. The Catering Wages Act, you know.
- Professor Kerris Bowles-Ottery: Yes. Well I must rush if I'm to get a bath before dinner.
- Hotel Manageress: I'm afraid the hot water system is being overhauled I think the water should be quite warm.
- Professor Kerris Bowles-Ottery: That sounds positively cosy.
- Hotel Manageress: Anything we can do...