"'A rope to hang her'"
"Bless him, you'd think he'd known all the wicked women that ever were.
My little Col-Col."
"You like him the best, don't you?"
"No. Indeed I do not. I like my laughing boy best. You wouldn't catch
Jerry singing a dismal song like that."
"Darling, you used to say Colin was your favourite."
"No, my dear. Never. Never. It was always Jerrold. Ever since he was born. He never cried when he was a baby. Colin was always crying."
"Poor Col-Col."
"There you are. Nobody'll ever say, 'Poor Jerrold'. I like happy people,
Anne. In this tiresome world it's people's duty to be happy."
"If it was, would they be? Don't look at me as if I wasn't."
"I wasn't thinking of you, ducky… You might tell Pinkney to take all those tea-things off the terrace and put them back into the lounge."