Joanna Lumley credited as playing...
Mrs. Mary Smiling
- Mrs. Smiling: I mean there probably isn't even a bathroom.
- Flora Poste: It is Sussex, for goodness' sake.
- Mrs. Smiling: In fact, when poetry is combined with ill-groomed hair and eccentric dress, it's generally fatal. You're very lucky, Elfine. He must have seen your finer points.
- Mrs. Smiling: It's bad to be dewy-eyed around smart people, but you can always secretly despise them.
- Mrs. Smiling: Of course you may stay here as long as you like. But I expect you should want to find some work to earn enough for a flat of your own.
- Flora Poste: Work! What kind of work?
- Mrs. Smiling: Oh, it's been ages since I've done any, but there must be something that would do... bookkeeping... beekeeping...
- Flora Poste: I'm willing to bet there are also cousins called Seth and Reuben.
- Mrs. Smiling: Why?
- Flora Poste: Highly sexed young men living on a farm are always called Seth or Reuben.