- Horace Rumpole: If you're no good at the bar, they make you a blooming circus judge. I'm surprised Uncle Tom isn't Lord Chancellor by now.
- Mrs. Whittaker: I've taken to the bar rather late in life, I'm afraid.
- Horace Rumpole: Ah, just as well. The young can't stand the pace.
- Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard, Q.C.: I think you were away sick when we agreed to take her on.
- Horace Rumpole: Oh, I was dying.
- Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard, Q.C.: [Smiling] Really?
- Horace Rumpole: I changed my mind.