HALLAM: I have cared for you for six months. I have watched you sleeping, held your hand when you cried, longed to hold you in my arms.

MEL: And what else have you done while I’ve been too spaced out to notice, I wonder?

HALLAM: What do you mean?

MEL: I mean, are you the sort of man who takes advantage of a woman while she’s too ill or too steeped in laudanum to protest? How could I possibly think of marrying you with that in the back of my mind?

HALLAM: I think you will find it wise to accept my offer, Nell.

MEL: No doubt. But I don’t love you, and I don’t plan on staying at Hallam Hall now that I’m well again.

HALLAM: You will find it difficult to leave Hallam Hall now, if you wish to preserve your honour.

MEL: Now you’re reduced to threatening a woman. And I thought you were a compassionate benefactor. How wrong I was.

MEL: I think I’m getting a headache. Oh, come on, let’s risk it. If I see another me in the crowd somewhere, I’ll just avoid her. Are you ready, Uncle?

JOHN: Yes, let’s go. It seems like today has gone on forever. I need a drink.

MEL: You are being outvoted, Doctor.

DOCTOR: No, I am being bullied, Melanie. Oh, all right then. Come on.

WALLACE: You mean to say that Eleanor has been telling us the truth all this time? I cannot comprehend this at all.

JOHN: It’s all true. The woman you call Eleanor is my niece, Melanie, who somehow has been thrown back through time. We’re here to take her back.

DOCTOR: But there is a problem.

JOHN: The canister?

DOCTOR: No, Mel herself. She has become Eleanor Hallam, part of your family history.

JOHN: So? Ah, I see what you’re saying.

DOCTOR: Yes, we can’t take Mel back. To leave your history unchanged, we must leave her here, to live out her life as Eleanor Hallam

DOCTOR: What’s an historian doing at the National Foundation for Scientific Research?

MEL: Mostly carbon-dating work, I think.

DOCTOR: Oh.

MEL: He’s not always allowed to talk about the projects he’s working on.

DOCTOR: He’s clearly a man of many talents. And judging from the residue of this particular experiment, I would say he’s been doing some important work with fried sausages.