Cranford (TV Series)

August 1842 (2007)

Lisa Dillon: Mary Smith

Quotes 

• [Mrs. Forester's cow has fallen into a lime pit and is struggling in vain to get itself out] 

  Mary Smith : I think the odour is the burning of the poor thing's hair - the lime has singed it off.

  Mrs. Forester : [shrieks]  What care I if she's bald?

  Miss Deborah Jenkyns : She will not be bald if she cannot be recovered - she will be naked!

  Captain Brown : It pains me to say it, Mrs. Forester, but the poor bad beast will have to be destroyed - unless you're prepared to dress it in pyjamas!

• Mary Smith : It attracted me at first because it was my mother's home, but I find I love it for its own sake now. All around us England shifts and changes but Cranford stands fast. Its women are like Amazons, and to those who live here it is the world entire.

• [Bessie, Mrs. Forrester's cow, has fallen into a lime pit] 

  Mary Smith : I think the odor is the burning of the poor thing's hair. The lime has singed it off.

  Mrs. Forrester : What care I if she lives on bald?

  Miss Deborah Jenkyns : She will not be bald if she cannot recover - she will be naked!

  Captain Brown : It pains me to say so, Mrs. Forrester, but the poor bare beast will have to be destroyed.

  Mrs. Forrester : [Wails] 

  Captain Brown : [Shrugging]  ... Unless you are prepared to dress it in pajamas.