Sinéad Cusack: WPC Diane Priest

Quotes 

• WPC Diane Priest : It's total madness! Madness is all anyone believes in these days!

• WPC Diane Priest : All right. Now tell me the very funny thing you know about sex.

  Oliver : Strange. I've been using that line for years. When I first started, it was what we called a chat-up line, but you're not allowed to say that any more. But you're the first woman who ever wanted to know.

  WPC Diane Priest : I may live to pay a terrible price.

  Oliver : Do I look like a serpent bearing forbidden fruit?

  WPC Diane Priest : No you look like a little boy who's discovered there's a better game than conkers.

  Oliver : It may just be the case.

  WPC Diane Priest : So, tell me...

  Oliver : All right. The very funny thing you know about sex is this... A woman, naked except for her stockings, is an extremely erotic sight. A man, naked except for his socks, is a totally ludicrous sight.

  [they laugh] 

• WPC Diane Priest : I want to ask big questions. Questions I have to ask myself. Like: will I take this man as my un-lawful, un-wedded husband, even as far as Hadrian's Wall.

  Oliver : Oh, we have to go *much* further than that. We have to travel far beyond the wall.

  WPC Diane Priest : That's why it's a big question.

  Oliver : All you have to do is say "yes". Wilt thou take this man?

  WPC Diane Priest : And wilt thou take this woman?

  Oliver : It's predestination. What else should we consider?

  WPC Diane Priest : Forsaking all others.

  Oliver : All the others have forsaken me. So it isn't really a live issue.

  WPC Diane Priest : And there's nobody for me to forsake.

  Oliver : How about worldly goods. There are some people feel very strongly about worldly goods.

  WPC Diane Priest : Haven't got any. Have you?

  Oliver : Purely for the record, a little house in south Wales, full of books, records and compact discs.

  WPC Diane Priest : And a head full of trivia.

  Oliver : All yours. And thereto I plight thee my troth.

  WPC Diane Priest : They had that one at *my* wedding, too. I never knew what it meant. Didn't like to ask.

  Oliver : To "plight" is to pledge or promise. Your "troth" is your loyalty and fidelity. So it's a pledge of loyalty and fidelity.

  WPC Diane Priest : All right. I plight thee my troth.

  Oliver : [sounding amazed]  You do?

  WPC Diane Priest : From this day forward.

  Oliver : As long as we both shall live.

  WPC Diane Priest : As long as it takes to get to the Orkneys.

  Oliver : I will.

  WPC Diane Priest : I will.

  [Oliver kisses Diane's hands]