- The Rector: Well, there we are Mrs fforbes-Hamilton. He walked in the way of the Lord and served him right.
- Audrey fforbes-Hamilton: Yes, it certainly did. Well, thank you Rector, it was a lovely funeral. We must have one again sometime.
- J.J. Anderson: This is Mr DeVere.
- Richard DeVere: My condolences Mrs fforbes-Hamilton.
- Audrey fforbes-Hamilton: Most kind. It was a great shock, but life must go on. Do help yourself to a drink.
- J.J. Anderson: It's Mr DeVere of Cavendish Foods...
- Audrey fforbes-Hamilton: Oh, the caterers! In that case, help everyone else to a drink.
- Arnold Plunkett: I have some things I must talk to you about this afternoon as soon as you have a moment: business, I'm afraid.
- Audrey fforbes-Hamilton: Arnold, this is a funeral! You must learn not to combine business with pleasure.
- Audrey fforbes-Hamilton: Sell Grantleigh? You're mad.
- Arnold Plunkett: The creditors are insisting upon it.
- Audrey fforbes-Hamilton: Have they no sense of history. We've been here through wars, plagues, floods, famines and labor governments. They can't let a little thing like bankruptcy alter the natural cause of events.
- Audrey fforbes-Hamilton: If I can't keep the manor, I want it to go to one of us. 'England for the English,' as we used to say about India.
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- Richard DeVere: Excuse me, Vicar, is this the Grantleigh estate?
- The Rector: It is indeed.
- Richard DeVere: Oh, good. I'm looking for the Old Lodge.
- 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?
- The Rector: Good luck, Mrs. Fforbes-Hamilton.
- Audrey fforbes-Hamilton: Thank you, Rector. What are you doing here?
- The Rector: I'm simply doing the Lord's bidding.
- Audrey fforbes-Hamilton: Oh, I didn't know he was interested. Well, that would be something. At least He's English.
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- 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.