Hylda Baker credited as playing...
Mrs. Sowerberry
- Sowerberry: Well, having a rest Mr. Bumble?
- Noah Claypole: He's sitting on Oliver.
- Sowerberry: Quite right, we must all sit on Oliver.
- Mrs. Sowerberry: Have you been drinking again?
- Sowerberry: [wistfully] I met a friend in the cemetery...
- Mrs. Sowerberry: He's gone mad, Mr. Bumble, or he wouldn't dare to speak to you like that.
- Mr. Bumble: It's not madness, ma'am, it's meat.
- Mrs. Sowerberry: Meat?
- Mr. Bumble: Meat, ma'am, meat. You've overfed the boy, ma'am. It raised an artificial spirit in the lad unbecoming to his station in life. This would never have happened if you kept him on gruel.
- Mrs. Sowerberry: Gruel?
- Mr. Bumble: I'll be glad to give you the recipe.
- Mr. Bumble: [grabs Oliver] Now then, what's your explanation, you young scalawag?
- Oliver Twist: He called my mother names!
- Mrs. Sowerberry: And what if he did? You ungrateful little wretch! She deserves what he said, and worse!
- Oliver Twist: She didn't!
- Mrs. Sowerberry: She did!
- Oliver Twist: It's a lie!
- Mr. Bumble: Hold your tongue, boy!
- Mrs. Sowerberry: Put him in the cellar, Mr. Bumble! That'll teach him!
- Sowerberry: My love?
- Mrs. Sowerberry: Yes?
- Sowerberry: It's really quite comfortable.
- [She sighs]
- Mr. Bumble: [pushes Oliver down to the cellar] You will stay down there until we decide what's to be done with you!
- Noah Claypole: Here's your baggage, workhouse!
- Mrs. Sowerberry: £3, indeed! You can take him back!