Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole's Return (1980)

Peggy Thorpe-Bates: Hilda Rumpole

Quotes 

• [Rumpole arrives home after losing a case. Hilda has been spraying the room with alluring perfume and has an open bottle of wine ready for him] 

  Horace Rumpole : Rather odd smell in here, isn't there?

  Hilda Rumpole : Is there?

  Horace Rumpole : Distinctly strange sort of smell. Like a mixture of RC churches and old flower baskets.

  Hilda Rumpole : Oh, that's not very romantic, is it, Rumpole? It's lavender water. It's the lavender water that you give me every Christmas.

  Horace Rumpole : Oh, sorry. I didn't recognize it.

  Hilda Rumpole : Since we met, you've given me 40 bottles of lavender water.

  Horace Rumpole : Well, I don't know what else you'd like the smell of.