To the Manor Born (TV Series)

Grantleigh (1979)

Angela Thorne: Marjory Frobisher

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• Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Thank God that's over. I can't stand the offhand manner of these undertakers. When I was down at that office yesterday, I saw them playing hoopla with the reeds.

  Marjory : I suppose it's their way of life.

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Nonsense. It's just another example of fallen standards. Are they out of sight?

  Marjory : Yes, I think so.

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Good, I can take this damn hat off. If one thing guaranteed to make a widow feel grizzly, it's having to face the immediate future through a veil.

  Marjory : I think you were awfully brave, Audrey. You kept your composure very well.

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Marjory, how long have we been friends?

  Marjory : Oh, all of our lives just about.

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : And you agree that a great bond of respect and trust has grown up between us? That is if we overlook the little matter of the crush we both had on Cynthia Fitzsimmons of Beddingham.

  Marjory : I'm sorry.

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Because I don't want you to breathe a word of what I'm going to do now.

  Marjory : Oh, of course I won't. It's only natural that you should want to have a little emotional outburst in private.

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Thank you, Marjory. Nobody looking, is there?

  Marjory : No.

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Right, here goes. Yipee! There. Oh I feel so much better now.

• Marjory : Money isn't everything. What about love, and romance?

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : You mean sex! You're sex mad. I can get anything I want in that line just by snapping my fingers.

  Marjory : I never found snapping my fingers that exciting.

• Marjory : Golly, the place looks bare! What have you done?

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Oh, we've taken all the "In Sympathy" cards down. Pity, they made the place look so cheerful. There's a lovely one here from Mrs. Beechum. "May me and Harry offer you every assistance with your death."

• Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Marjory, are you going to dress for dinner?

  Marjory : I have!

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : To eat it or cook it?

• [last lines] 

  Richard DeVere : I won't say goodbye. Just au revoir.

  Marjory : [speaking about Richard De Vere]  Golly, what a man.

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Yes, isn't he?

  Marjory : Aud, you're not thinking of...?

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Why not?

  Marjory : You were, you've just said the most terrible things about him!

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : Marjory, you must learn not to confuse money with breeding. He's got the money, I've got the breeding.

  Marjory : Do you think he might be your Mr. Right?

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : I don't know about Mr. Right, but he could very well be Mr. Convenient.

• Marjory : At least he's English.

  Audrey fforbes-Hamilton : But he's trade.