Patricia Routledge credited as playing...
Hyacinth
- [first lines]
- Hyacinth: I wish you'd smile more when you're gardening, Richard.
- [with a smile, she mimes trimming a branch]
- Richard: If I do *that* they're going to lock me away.
- Hyacinth: Try to look as though you're enjoying it, dear.
- Richard: But I don't particularly enjoy it. It's just something that has to be done.
- Hyacinth: Well, that's how it appears.
- Richard: The garden looks well enough.
- Hyacinth: Oh, it's not the garden dear; it's *you*. You look as though you're not enjoying doing it. Which gives the impression that we can't afford a gardener.
- Richard: We can't afford a gardener.
- Hyacinth: Shh, Richard! Keep your voice down, dear. *If* we can't afford a gardener, that's all the more reason why we should look as though we *can* afford a gardener. So in future, could you look like someone who enjoys doing his own gardening but could afford a gardener if he wanted to.
- Hyacinth: [as Richard tries to put the skis in the car] We're just going to my sister Violet's house. You know the one. Large house, swimming pool, room for a po-
- [Richard accidentally gooses her with the skis and she shrieks]
- Hyacinth: NEEEEEE!
- Emmet: [laughs]
- Hyacinth: Mind what you're doing, Richard!
- Emmet: I think that's the highest note you've hit in quite a while.
- Hyacinth: [taking it as a compliment and recovering; smiles, laughs lightly; then returns to scolding mode] Mind what you're doing with those skis.