- [Ethel is on the telephone, booking a haircut for a passenger]
- Ethel Schumann: Yes, it does grow faster in the summer. Let's hope it doesn't fall out in the autumn!
- Vera Plumtree: My late husband had a labrador. He was an engine driver you know.
- May: [sardonically] What, the labrador?
- Vera Plumtree: No, my late husband. Now and then from time to time, he'd get this far away look in his eye, and he'd be away for days, until he'd satisfied his yearnings.
- Ethel Schumann: What, your husband?
- Vera Plumtree: No, the labrador!