- Dr. Jo Hardy: [pacing back and forth] I had to go down to that farm once and I asked to see inside the sheds out of curiosity. It's revolting! An obscenity!
- Prof. John Hardy: I quite agree.
- Dr. Jo Hardy: But I suppose to a boy in Lewis's state of mind, intent on self abasement, it might have held a sort of ghastly attraction.
- Prof. John Hardy: [absentmindedly as he reads a document] Conjecture! Pure conjecture!
- Dr. Jo Hardy: But how did he have this obsession to keep going back?
- Prof. John Hardy: You believe that he cut off his own right hand and then succeeded in concealing the instrument so that a police search party couldn't find it all day!
- Dr. Jo Hardy: You see there was a phrase towards the end of his diary quoting Archbishop Cranmer just after his recantation.
- [Jo holds up her right hand for emphasis]
- Dr. Jo Hardy: This hand hath offended!
- Prof. John Hardy: [John stares at her incredulously] Jo! There are times when you come out with the most incredible rubbish with the same conviction that you normally talk common sense!