- [first lines]
- Clegg: You're looking very thoughtful, Truly. You look like a man who's thinking about life and death and what it's all about.
- Truly: Well, actually, I was thinking about how much I used to like a kipper for my breakfast. But they tend to repeat.
- Clegg: There you are, you see. Ha-ha. Why do kippers repeat? It's one of your fundamental philosophical problems.
- Truly: What did Bertrand Russell say about it?
- Clegg: Well, he mixed with the left, as you know, so naturally he blamed the Americans.
- Truly: Did you ever have kipper for breakfast?
- Clegg: Yes, I did, once. Huh. It was on honeymoon; we were at a hotel. I thought: "Why not? Everything else is weird."
- Truly: I used to have a digestive system like an incinerator; I could consume anything. Well, you had to in the police; I mean you grabbed a meal when you could. First week in the vice squad you lost your appetite. Huh. But after that I could digest concrete, Which was just as well as that was what the former Mrs Truelove did best.
- [last lines]
- Florrie: [to Truly] Herbert, I'm very sorry to have to tell you, but you've just been replaced in my affections by a Mr. Riley, who does his *own* housekeeping.