Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)
Rumpole and the Learned Friends (1978)
Peggy Thorpe-Bates: Hilda Rumpole
Quotes
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[last lines]
Horace Rumpole : Here, I give you a toast. Here's to our future.
Hilda Rumpole : The future!
Horace Rumpole : [Laconically] Which now shows every sign of being exactly like our past.
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[Rumpole is ill in bed and Hilda is taking his temperature]
Hilda Rumpole : [looking at the thermometer] Rumpole, you're not normal.
Horace Rumpole : [groans weakly] I'm dying.
Hilda Rumpole : Nonsense! What did Doctor Hanson say it was?
Horace Rumpole : [ominously] Death. He says there's a lot of it about.
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[Rumpole is "dying" of flu when his clerk phones with news of a safe-blowing case that he wants Rumpole to defend. Rumpole is suddenly much better and gets up]
Hilda Rumpole : I thought you were dying.
Horace Rumpole : Dying will have to be postponed. Safe-blowing comes first.