- Mrs. Hughes: "Mr. Carson, he's in the workhouse. And in case you are wondering, it's as bad as if we were reading about it in a novel by Dickens."
- Mr. Carson: "Haven't they closed the workhouses?"
- Mrs. Hughes: "No, they haven't! Not all of them."
- — Episode 4.01
The Ripon Workhouse is where Mrs. Hughes finds Charles Grigg after reading a letter that his old partner Mr. Carson had thrown in the waste basket.