- Primrose: [at dinner table] I said, I don't want a birthday party.
- Sidney Charles 'Pop' Larkin: Oh, come on, Primrose, you've got to have a knees-up on your sixteenth birthday. It's a big day in a young girl's life, isn't it, Ma?
- [Ma nods]
- Sidney Charles 'Pop' Larkin: I mean, you know, when you're sixteen, you can do all sorts of things.
- [Ma gives him a look reminding him he's on dangerous territory]
- Sidney Charles 'Pop' Larkin: Well, you know, you can, uh, you can, uh... you... you can... uhm...
- [Ma raises her eyebrows]
- Sidney Charles 'Pop' Larkin: well, you...
- [clears throat]
- Sidney Charles 'Pop' Larkin: You... you can get married if you want to, eh?
- Victoria: [cheeky] Tony had better watch his step then.
- Primrose: [snaps] Shut up, Victoria!
- Sidney Charles 'Pop' Larkin: Come on, Primrose. You'll be a big girl.
- Primrose: Fine.
- [puts down her cutlery, rises from table]
- Primrose: Then, as a so-called big girl, I can exercise my right not to have a stupid party.
- Sidney Charles 'Pop' Larkin: [Primrose storms off] Wha-? Hey, Primrose! Now come...
- [stammers]
- Sidney Charles 'Pop' Larkin: What did I say now?
- Ma Larkin: [wisely] Primrose don't wanna be a big girl, dear. She wants to be a young lady.
- [Victoria scoffs]
- Sidney Charles 'Pop' Larkin: [as Primrose's upstairs bedroom door slams, scoffs:] Women!
- Primrose: [observing loving couple Mariette and Charley, then quoting to herself] Ah, beautiful, passionate body, that never has ached for a heart.