- Mr. Abney: Crudely scored under great pressure, the wood being too old and hard to be so incised by the hand of a living child.
- Mrs. Bunch: It's my belief she was had away by the gypsies, for there was singing round the house for as much as an hour the night after she'd gone, and lights in the wood like will-o'-the-wisps!
- Mr. Abney: Some annoyance may be experienced from the psychic portion of the subjects. Especially in those cases where they can command the allegiance of what we are pleased to call material objects.
- Parkes: The master may get up his own port in the future. I tell you there's something down there in the cellars.
- Mrs. Bunch: Rats more than like!
- Parkes: A talkin'? A talkin', Mrs B?