Glenda Jackson credited as playing...
Alex Greville
- Alex: I can't see why my having an affair with someone on and off is any worse that being *married* for a course or two at mealtimes.
- Mrs. Greville: But darling... you keep throwing in your hand because you haven't got the whole thing. There *is* no whole thing, my poppet. You have to make it work.
- Alex: I've had this business: "Anything is better than nothing." There are times when nothing *has* to be better than anything.
- Alex: I won't be here when you get back. I can't come over. Don't ring. We've got to pack this in and I don't know what else to say.
- Bob: Alex...
- Alex: Me being careful not to ask you about Daniel. Daniel not getting answers from you because you're here! My old Mum not making demands for umpteen years and my fucking office! I don't want us to live like this.
- Alex: I'm not angry with you. I bought it because I love you. I bought your terms and they were - rotten terms and I shouldn't have done it. My fault.
- Bob: You keep asking too much.
- Alex: For God's sake! Caring a lot about someone, is that too much! People that have some tie for each other, is that too much?
- Mr. Harding: Its my age, isn't it. When your over fifty, in a properly run business, you're over the hump!
- Alex: You shouldn't say that.
- Mr. Harding: They give you the golden handshake or a sherry party and you can't find another job and that's that.
- Mr. Harding: It is firms like you that are turning me out to grass. Me and all the other fifty year olds.
- Alex: You told me fifty-five.
- Mr. Harding: Fifty.
- Alex: Hang on to that, then.
- Alex: I wouldn't want to ring him there - it's a doctor you know.
- Answering Service Lady: Yes I know that, it's Dr Hirsch. Dr Hirsch also uses this service.