- Chris Hawthorn: What do you think could have happened to her?
- Mrs. Hawthorn: Why, it's staring you in the face! She's gone off with a chap, that's what.
- Chris Hawthorn: I don't believe it. Our Jenny would never do a thing like that.
- Mrs. Hawthorn: Trust you to stick up for her. Well, what else can it mean?
- Chris Hawthorn: I don't know. Perhaps she's been kidnapped or something. Maybe I ought to go to the police.
- Mrs. Hawthorn: You'll do no such thing. Isn't it enough for you that she's disgraced us, without telling the whole of Hindle?
- Chris Hawthorn: We've no proof that she has.
- Mrs. Hawthorn: Kidnapped indeed! She put yesterday's date on the card, the sly, artful little... oh, I tell you she's gone off with a chap. And it's you who're to blame Chris Hawthorn, for never having taken a stick to her!
- Chris Hawthorn: We'll talk of this again in the morning. Go to your room now, Jenny.
- Jenny Hawthorn: Yes, father.
- Mrs. Hawthorn: Call yourself a man? If it had been me, my father would have taken a stick to me!
- Chris Hawthorn: A stick won't take back what she's done.
- Betty Farrer: If I weren't a girl of such strong principles, I'd marry you like a shot.
- Alan Jeffcote: Well, couldn't you forget them?
- Betty Farrer: But darling, if I didn't have such strong principles, I probably wouldn't have forgiven you in the first place.
- Alan Jeffcote: Oh.
- Jenny Hawthorn: You and Father ought to go to Blackpool too - it's a grand place, and the air would do you good.
- Mrs. Hawthorn: What should we do at Blackpool, tell me that. Lie on the beach naked, or ride on the roller coaster?
- Alan Jeffcote: How am I going to find her?
- George Ackroyd: Elementary old boy. Where's everyone in Blackpool who's under 90 and hasn't a hangover - on the beach!
