Julian Glover credited as playing...
Leoric Ashby
- [first lines]
- Leoric Ashby: Master Clemence.
- Peter Clemence: Leoric.
- Leoric Ashby: [to Meriet] Take his horse, boy. Welcome to Ashby Manor.
- Peter Clemence: [dismounts into a puddle] The pleasure is all yours... cousin.
- Leoric Ashby: I have misprized you, Meriet. Almost from the day that you were born.
- Meriet Ashby: The fault was not all yours, sir. No man could have had a more irksome son.
- [Leoric laughs, then begins to cry and hugs Meriet close]
- Leoric Ashby: Come home.
- Leoric Ashby: I had the horse led to the far north, by the route Clemence should have taken - devil's own job to catch. And the body I took in secret to the charcoal hearth. I built a stack and fired it. It was not well done, and against my conscience, but I did it. And I did it not for Meriet's sake, not for my own flesh and blood - that's the real shame - but to preserve that worthless thing called "honor."
- Brother Cadfael: No, honor is not worthless. But you sought to protect a family name. And a name, alone, has no worth at all.