Rosemary & Thyme (TV Series)

Arabica and the Early Spider (2003)

Felicity Kendal: Rosemary Boxer

Quotes 

• Rosemary Boxer : [Excitedly as bullets come through the window]  Laura, we're being shot at!

• Rosemary Boxer : Do you remember we showed you a button?

  Fiona Georgeson : [Sipping from a tulip glass of champagne during the entire conversation]  Button? No!

  [Rosemary and Laura nod in disagreement and Rosemary takes out the button and displays it] 

  Fiona Georgeson : Oh, the toggle.

  [Condescendingly] 

  Fiona Georgeson : Do get it right, Ducky.

  Rosemary Boxer : And I asked you if you knew anyone who had a coat with that kind of

  [Hesitatingly] 

  Rosemary Boxer : ... toggle. Did you know?

  Laura Thyme : Yes, she did.

  Fiona Georgeson : Yes, I did. Yes, yes, it must have slipped my mind.

  Laura Thyme : Or you were deliberately trying to conceal the truth?

  Fiona Georgeson : Or I was deliberately trying to conceal the truth. Probably the latter. I'm not very famous for my veracity.

  Rosemary Boxer : May we sit down?

  Fiona Georgeson : No, I don't think so. You're not amusing.

  Laura Thyme : Why didn't you admit that you had owned such a coat?

  Fiona Georgeson : I suppose you've heard the village gossip about me running off with Denny?

  Rosemary Boxer : Yes.

  Fiona Georgeson : Poor Denny. Denny gave me the coat.

  Laura Thyme : And... ?

  Fiona Georgeson : Well, much to your surpreez, Ducky, I didn't want to bring it up in front of my pig of a husband. He has swinish, jealous rages from time to time or oinks away in the most alarming manner, waving his trotters about. That's why I gave the coat away in the first place.

• Laura Thyme : [walking through estate grounds, discussing previous night's mysterious shooting]  Maybe he saw someone; an intruder, or a poacher.

  Rosemary Boxer : Poacher?

  Laura Thyme : They can be quite a problem you know.

  Rosemary Boxer : You come across a lot of poachers in the police force?

  Laura Thyme : Not in North Kensington, no.

• Rosemary Boxer : ...and overcome with grief, she committed suicide.

  Laura Thyme : And overcome with tidiness, she buried herself?

• Laura Thyme : [engine turns over and gears grate]  Ooo! Oh. God! I really don't see why we can't have a proper car!

  Rosemary Boxer : Why? Why? We need this one for work.

  Laura Thyme : Well, a newer model at least!

  Rosemary Boxer : Well, no, no. After this one they put in girly things like comfortable seats and power steering and... rubbish like that.

• Rosemary Boxer : [after opening the door]  What do you think you're doing? You've broken the bloody window!

  [Laura drags her back inside] 

• Rosemary Boxer : Oh,I don't know what came over me.

  Laura Thyme : Sheer bloody lunacy that's what came over you. Here, drink this. Come on,down in one.

  Rosemary Boxer : Oh,that's very nice.

  Laura Thyme : You're in shock.

  Rosemary Boxer : I think I need two more.

  Laura Thyme : I want you to calm down not fall over.