ROMANA: Oh, I do love the spring. All the leaves, the colours.

DOCTOR: It's October.

ROMANA: I thought that you said we were coming here for May week.

DOCTOR: I did. May week's in June.

ROMANA: I'm confused.

DOCTOR: So was the TARDIS.

ROMANA: Oh, I do love the autumn. All the leaves, the colours.

DOCTOR: Well, at least with something as simple as a punt nothing can go wrong. No coordinates, no dimensional stabilisers, nothing. Just the water, a punt, a strong pair of hands and the pole.

(Whereupon the pole gets stuck in the mud of the riverbed and the Doctor has to let it go. They drift on under a bridge.)

SHIP: Dead men do not require oxygen.

SKAGRA: Take over the universe? How childish. Who could possibly want to take over the universe?

DOCTOR: Exactly. That's what I keep telling people. It's a troublesome place, difficult to administer. And as a piece of real estate, it's worthless, because by definition there'd be no one to sell it to.

CHRONOTIS: More tea, my dear?

ROMANA: Lovely. Two lumps, no sugar.

DOCTOR: Clever jink that, don't you think? I made them think I was trying to get to the TARDIS.

PARSONS: What were you trying to do?

DOCTOR: Get to the TARDIS.

PARSONS: No, well, er, look, I hope I'm not taking up any of your valuable-

CHRONOTIS: Time? Oh no. When you get to my age, you'll find that time doesn't matter too much. Not that I expect you'll get to my age.

DOCTOR: Well, when I was on the river I heard a strange babble of inhuman voices, didn't you, Romana?

ROMANA: Yes.

CHRONOTIS: Oh, undergraduates talking to each other, I expect. I've trying to have it banned.

ROMANA: Go and get the medical kit from the TARDIS.

PARSONS: The what?

ROMANA: Over there. First door on the left, down the corridor, second door on the right, down the corridor, third door on the left, down the corridor, fourth door on the right...

PARSONS: Down the corridor?

ROMANA: No, white cupboard opposite the door, top shelf.

PARSONS: Don't worry, K9. He's all right.

DOCTOR: No, I'm not. I'm dead.

PARSONS: Pardon?

DOCTOR: I've been nearly too clever by three quarters.

PARSONS: You never seem to do anything by halves.

DOCTOR: Did you just see what I didn't see?

ROMANA: No.

DOCTOR: Neither did I.

PARSONS: It just vanished.

DOCTOR: That's what I said. Watch that cow pat.

ROMANA: I told you you'd got the time wrong, Doctor.

DOCTOR: Yes, but you're always saying that.

ROMANA: You're always getting the time wrong.