- Stella: [voiceover] When the war came it changed everybody's lives. I left my cosy job in an office and volunteered for the Women's Land Army. We all had to pull together to help win the war. We had to grow more food or starve. I chose the Lawrence farm to be near my fiancé Philip who was an officer in the Navy
- Joe Lawrence: Which one for you, Ratty?
- Ratty, Lawrence Farm Hand: The dark one takes my fancy. She reminds me of a girl I met in 1899.
- Joe Lawrence: Have you lost something then, Miss Stella?
- Stella: No
- Joe Lawrence: What's up then?
- Stella: Nothing.
- Joe Lawrence: Where are you going then?
- Stella: Where do you think.
- Joe Lawrence: [loudly] Ratty, she's looking for a place to go.
- Ratty, Lawrence Farm Hand: What does she want? A perch?
- Stella: Please, I don't need a map.
- Joe Lawrence: [loudly] Where can she go, Ratty?
- Ratty, Lawrence Farm Hand: There's a two-acre field over there, if that one's not big enough, there's the four-acre field over there.
- [points]
- Stella: I have been in a field before.
- Joe Lawrence: Do you want some paper?
- Stella: No thank you, I've some of my own.
- Ag: I say, that was completely out of line old chap, actually.
- Joe Lawrence: You speak like you've got a plum in your mouth.
- Ag: Not cricket, as boys say.
- [in the middle of the night, Prue goes to Joe's bed, gets in beside him and starts kissing him]
- Joe Lawrence: Remember, this was *your* idea.
- Prue (Prudence): [cynically] Oh, really.
- [she feels his erection]
- Prue (Prudence): Well, what's that then? Hm?
- Joe Lawrence: Oh...
- Prue (Prudence): Is that a parsnip?