- George Mason: Well, you know what they say... when you lose a son, you gain a... a... um...
- [clears his throat]
- George Mason: Lettice, I'm a liberal coward but everyone has a right to live his own life, make his own decisions. It's a right that I will defend for my son, even against my wife. You... you can't live his life for him.
- Lettice Mason: I don't want to. I'm far too busy.
- George Mason: If he is nightly in the arms of a young man which, pray God, he isn't, does it matter?
- Lettice Mason: You'd have to resign from the golf club, for a start.