Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Learned Friends (1978)

Peggy Thorpe-Bates: Hilda Rumpole

Quotes 

• [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.

• [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.

• [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.