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Wetherby Pond : My mind is made up on one thing Miss Whitchurch: if I sink, you sink with me!
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Wetherby Pond : [responding in exasperation to Miss Whitchurch informing him that her girls will arrive imminently, as St Swithin's is a boarding school that specializes in outposts] Madam, I am not in the least concerned where they come from or even if the sun never sets upon them.
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[Wetherby Pond bursts into one of the dormitories where the boys of Nutbourne are having a pillow fight with the girls and mistresses of St Swithin's. He quickly turns round and goes back into the corridor]
Conrad Matthews : Aren't you going to stop them, sir?
Wetherby Pond : There are times, I think, when little boys should be seen... but not interrupted.
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Rainbow : There's a lady at the door, sir, wanting to know if you'll vote for Miss Winston in the election.
Wetherby Pond : Mrs Hampstead, you can tell your lady that if there is a *male* candidate, whether he's Conservative, socialist, communist or anarchist... or for that matter, Liberal... he will have my vote.
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Sir Angus McNally : We're waiting for an explanation, Mr Pond!
Wetherby Pond : Can't you see I'm trying to think of one...
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Wetherby Pond : St Swithin's? You don't mean that yours is a school of boys *and* girls?
Barbara Colhoun : Oh no! Only girls.
Arnold Billings : Does this mean, sir, that we are to expect 100 young ladies?
Wetherby Pond : It means that not only have the Ministry made a mistake in sending a school here at all, but they've apparently been guilty of an appalling sexual aberration.