- Moray: [stridently] When I was your age I *was* building the Paradise. But not only because I had the ideas, but because I had gone out into the world and begged and borrowed and brow-beat my way into the kind of financial backing that turns ideas into reality. That is not something I see in you.
- Denise: Because if I walked into a bank seeking financial backing, they would assume I'd come to sell my services as a cleaner - or perhaps just to sell myself. I do not even know that a woman would be allowed through the doors. It is different for me. But not because *I* am different, but because the world treats me so. Can you not see that?
- Moray: I would not want you to become another version of what I am. Of *who* I am.
- Denise: Oh, John. That is where we differ.
- [first lines]
- Flora: [picking up her new doll] Oh ma ma, she's almost as beautiful as you!
- Katherine Weston: But she comes in her underclothes. We must attend to her wardrobe.
- Flora: Are we to take her to ladies wear then?
- Katherine Weston: What a splendid notion.
- Tom Weston: You are quite the anomaly, Clara. You do not gasp and mutter with the rest of your sex.
- Clara: [huskily] It would take more than a toy to make me gasp, Tom.