Character: Beth March (Beth March)

- What do you think?.. He's a prisoner, as the Media in Nicholas Nickleby... He's lonely.
- He will come to visit us?
Maybe. It is a mystery, a tragic European secret.
- They say he is not educated. He was raised by Italian actors and vagabonds...
- His noble face. If I were a boy, I would like to have the same. How can I change Italy to this terrible man?
- Don't say "terrible" - it's slang.
I would die from fear.
- What do we think of the boy?.. He Is a captive like Smee in Nicholas Nickleby?.. He looks lonely.
- You don't think he'll try to call?
- Maybe. He has a secret! A tragic European secret.
- He's had no upbringing at all, they say. He was reared in Italy among artists and vagrants.
- Doesn't he have a noble brow? If I were a boy, I'd want to look just like that. Imagine giving up Italy to come live with that awful old man!
- Jo please don't say "awful". It's slang.
- I'd be terrified to live with him.

- Colleagues, listen up! Offer you "the story of a pumpkin", Mr. Tupman.
- Do not read.
- Bet it's not a story, this is a recipe!
- The first rule of writers do not write about...
- You know...
- Gentlemen of the press, hear, hear! I call to your attention... Our Mr. Tupman''s "The History of the Squash".
- Oh, don't read mine.
- Beth, this isn't a story. It's a recipe!
- Oh, dear, I never know what to write.
- First rule of writing, Mr. Tupman, is never write what you know.