The Manor (1999)

Greta Scacchi: Mrs. Ravenscroft

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• Mrs. Ravenscroft : You'll excuse me if my husband's recent... headlong plunge down the main staircase is not one of my *favourite* topics of conversation.

• Mrs. Ravenscroft : What are you doing here? Burning the meat?

  Dolly : Em... no ma'am... we're burning the gravy.

  Mrs. Ravenscroft : Ah! It's the gravy, is it? Oh well, that's all right then I suppose. Excuse me inspector, I must just go now and supervise the... eh... ritual burning of the gravy.

• Mrs. Ravenscroft : Dolly! *Why* is the pudding on the floor?

  Dolly : Well, I put it down there to cool ma'am. There's a nice draught down there.

  Mrs. Ravenscroft : Well, it must be cool enough *now*. The cat's eating it.

• Mrs. Ravenscroft : When Mrs French saw that much the same thing had happened to Patrick, I suppose her first assumption was that I must have taken up throwing men down staircases as a kind of hobby.

• Mrs. Ravenscroft : Good Lord! You don't think that we are throwing all the men in the immediate vicinity down the staircase, do you?

• Mrs. Ravenscroft : I swear on my mother's grave!

  Dolly : But your mother is alive! She lives over a pub in Bristol.

  Mrs. Ravenscroft : Well, then... I swear on my mother's pub!

• Mrs. Ravenscroft : Dolly! Get your wretched wiggely little bum in here!

  Dolly : Excuse me sir. If I don't go she'll kill me. Well... I don't mean actually kill me. I was speaking... you know... metaphysically.

  Inspector Tomas Hatcher : You mean... metaphorically?

  Dolly : As you say, sir.