- Robert Wainthropp: [Excited by finding a soccer biography in his uncle's library] It's a first edition!
- Hetty Wainthropp: Was there a second?
- Hetty Wainthropp: Why did you give him a book about witches?
- Hannah: Well, we were talkin' about it, and he was interested. It's the old religion, isn't it? Never died out... better than ours in some ways.
- Hetty Wainthropp: What ways?
- Hannah: [Knowingly] Women in control.
- Robert Wainthropp: [about his dead uncle] He was my childhood hero... my role model long before they thought up the term.
- Lottie: [Referring to Hetty's food bag] Have you got biscuits in there?
- Hetty Wainthropp: [Clearly annoyed] That's for me to know and you to wait till you're offered. Who are you?
- Hetty Wainthropp: There's a smell of death in this village.
- Robert Wainthropp: [Unaffected by what she has just said he continues reading] All right.
- Hetty Wainthropp: [She repeats with great emphasis and deliberstion] A smell of death, Robert.