- [last lines]
- Jean: We did have an affair.
- Lionel: What, tonight?
- Jean: No, then!
- Lionel: Well, I rather supposed you did.
- Jean: Oh.
- Lionel: Well, you were a widow, you were young. I wouldn't have expected you to live like a nun.
- Jean: Well, it wasn't a great love or anything.
- Lionel: They don't need to be.
- Jean: They?
- Lionel: Well, you were on your own for a long while.
- Jean: Yes. So were you.
- Lionel: Yes! I think I will have that early night.
- Jean: Lionel?
- Lionel: Good night.
- Jean: Lionel.
- [first lines]
- Lionel: [reading instructions] Finally, tighten screw D and your wine-rack is ready for use. Hmh. Not bad, not bad at all.
- [Lionel places an empty bottle in the rack and it falls to pieces. Jean smiles]
- Lionel: Don't hold back on my account.
- Jean: I don't know why you get involved with these things; I really don't.
- Lionel: By the way, Sandy went as a fourth former; big, baggy gym slip and woolly tights.
- Jean: Oh, good for Sandy. I'm sorry you didn't get to peek at the more traditional costume though.
- Lionel: I wouldn't've looked anyway.
- Jean: You know, you're quite remarkable.
- Lionel: No I'm not. I'm lying. I would've looked.