- Lark Ingoldsby: We'll have seven children and a million pounds a year.
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: What was that?
- Lark Ingoldsby: I was thinking when we were children. You've forgotten.
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Shouldn't I share your thoughts?
- Lark Ingoldsby: We shall always be in love, won't we?
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Always.
- Lark Ingoldsby: Even when we're old?
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Even when we're old.
- Grizel Dane: [very curious] Proutie, who was Lark?
- Proutie: She was old Mr. Dane's ward, miss.
- Grizel Dane: Uncle Rollo's ward?
- Proutie: Oh, dear, no, Miss Lark was Mr. Rollo's father's ward, miss. She grew up with Mr. Rollo and all the Dane children.
- Grizel Dane: And you were here even then?
- Proutie: Oh, yes, miss. My old auntie was in service with Mr. Rollo's father. I remember Miss Lark well. One doesn't forget Miss Lark.
- [changing the subject]
- Proutie: Dinner will be served at 7.00 miss. The General likes to dress.
- Grizel Dane: Good. It'll be a pleasant change, we're allowed to be feminine off-duty. Proutie, you haven't told me what happened to Lark.
- Proutie: Nothing happened to her, miss.
- Pilot Officer Pax Masterson: I used to play hide and seek in these rooms.
- Grizel Dane: How interesting since you never set foot here before.
- Pilot Officer Pax Masterson: Imaginary hide and seek. When I was little my aunt taught me where every room was. She wanted to know this house as she remembered it, she grew up here.
- Grizel Dane: Was your aunt by any chance called Lark?
- Pilot Officer Pax Masterson: Yes, Lark Ingoldsby. I was brought up by her. She made me promise to visit this house if I ever got to London.
- Grizel Dane: You begin to make sense.
- Lark Ingoldsby: [singing] "I'll list for my soldier/And follow my love..."
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: [interrupting] Now I know why they call you "Lark".
- Lark Ingoldsby: [turning around] Were you there? Listening all the time?
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: You've grown up.
- Lark Ingoldsby: A little.
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: I didn't know you could sing like that.
- Lark Ingoldsby: You didn't know I was growing up either.
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Do you know what happened to this room?
- Lark Ingoldsby: No.
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: It's full of light, sunshine and flowers.
- Lark Ingoldsby: You'll listen to reason, not to me. The Danes have always listened to the reasons instead of their hearts.
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Let's not get angry.
- Lark Ingoldsby: I am not angry, I'm lost. Pelham is in love with me. I can't stay here and hurt him.
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Pelham?
- Lark Ingoldsby: Selina knows that if you go without me I must leave this house, too. I can't wait for you, Rollo!
- Selina Dane: We'll be so proud of you: General Sir Roland Dane.
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: No. If I have to choose between my army career and Lark. I know which I want. I want Lark!
- Selina Dane: You can't mean that.
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Believe me, I do.
- Lark Ingoldsby: [to Selina] As long as I am in this house. This is my room.
- [shouts]
- Lark Ingoldsby: Get out of it!
- Grizel Dane: I sent him away.
- General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Then if I were you, I'd go and find him. Don't cheat yourself of love the way I did. Listen to me! Don't stop to bargain for happiness, for in one wasted moment, a door may close, a ship may sail, a train may leave, a man may die. Go after him or make your mind you'll never see him again.