- Margot Bence: Well, we lived in the East End of London, my mother and eight of us kids, and she simply couldn't cope. So she did what a lot of women did in her position and she wrote to the rich and famous, begged them to adopt, and one day she got lucky.
- Miss Marple: Didn't Miss Gregg also adopt a boy?
- Margot Bence: Yes. And for a time we lived the most wonderful life. Marina played her part to the hilt.
- Dolly Bantry: But she did want children, didn't she?
- Margot Bence: Oh, yes. She just didn't want us. As soon as she discovered she was pregnant, that was it. All she wanted was a child of her own.
- Dolly Bantry: Well, you can't blame her for that.
- Margot Bence: No. But I can blame her for taking me. And my mother for letting her.
- Vincent Hogg: [Discussing his girlfriend, Lola Brewster] Yes, we sort of gravitated to each other as injured parties. She's a sweet girl, soothingly stupid.