Ninian: I should have thought it was easier to hear people who raised their voices.
Selina: Don’t you see? Then one doesn’t want to hear them.
Ninian: You are all too clever for me. But I really don’t know where it leads you to.
Mrs. Martineau: It has made Lord William and Mr. Molyneux the two most sought-after men in London.
Lord William: It has helped Emily to avoid marriage and enabled her to lead her own life with admirable indiscretion.
Selina: It has made me a comfort to my father in his old age.
Lady Emily: We have only one regret. It has not prevented Ann and Tim from being saints.
Ninian: Ann has no temptations and Tim is indoors too much.
[He caresses Ann’s hair and she shudders a little.
Molyneux: And it is delightful just being ourselves.