Death in Holy Orders (TV Mini Series)
Episode #1.2 (2003)
Janie Dee: Emma Lavenham
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Emma Lavenham : There's one thing I missed out of my pithy self-description the other day: I'm engaged to be married.
[Dalgliesh nods but says nothing]
Emma Lavenham : No reaction. All around you, people are coming apart at the seams, reaching momentous decisions with barely time to stop and think, and you're *supremely* indifferent, unruffled.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh : I'm here to investigate a crime.
Emma Lavenham : What, here at St Anselm's or here on this earth, to do that and no more?
Commander Adam Dalgliesh : What are you saying?
Emma Lavenham : I'm saying: what do you think about me being engaged to be married?
Commander Adam Dalgliesh : [pause] I wish you weren't.
Emma Lavenham : Then I'm *not*.