Colin: Oh, come, John! Nowadays there are a great many “betwixt and betweeners,” as it were!
John: The whole thing’s breaking up.
Colin: Then why bother?
John: The break-up is all so undirected and casual.
Margaret: Are you so sure it is breaking up?
John: Yes. Quite.
Gwen: Why?
John (definitely, and as the result of previous thought): The Church is losing its influence.
Colin: I shouldn’t have thought that mattered tuppence.
John: It’s fundamental.