- Miss Pole: Men! They are all the same! They know everything about everything, save, when it is to happen and how it can be stopped. My father was a man. I think I understand the sex.
- [Job Gregson has been arrested and locked up in the town jail]
- Sir Charles Maulver: I issued the constable with a warrant for this arrest. The offence brought to me was robbery with violence. The man will be tried for that and found guilty.
- Lady Ludlow: He's guilty of poaching - and nothing more.
- Sir Charles Maulver: And nothing less. I'm plagued by poachers too, and they're all vagabonds. Vagabonds can be sentenced purely for their way of life - no specific crime is required. That, Lady Ludlow, is the law.
- Lady Ludlow: And who is it who makes the law? Those such as you in the House of Commons; those such as I in the House of Lords. You can also mete out justice as you see fit - that's your privilege as a magistrate. Convict Job Gregson... of poaching. And I will pay the fine. Five pounds from my own purse to save a father of six from jail. He'll work on my land, unwaged, in reparation.
- [Harry's father has been falsely imprisoned for attempted murder]
- Harry Gregson: Sir, he's not guilty.
- Mr. Carter: Can you vouch for his whereabouts on that night? Can you prove he was in another place? Otherwise occupied?
- Harry Gregson: He was on Lady Ludlow's land. Poaching. Six brace of pheasants, two of snipe. I helped you write it in the ledger.
- Mr. Carter: How do you know it was him?
- Harry Gregson: I was there. I was helping.
- Mr. Carter: Go home now.
- [Angrily]
- Mr. Carter: Now, Harry!
- Lady Ludlow: Poaching is next to thieving, Mr. Carter. I abhor it for that reason.
- Mr. Carter: Madam, I am convinced it was done because the man was desperate to feed his family!
- Lady Ludlow: Has he no work? Where does he live?
- Mr. Carter: He is a squatter in Hareman's Lane.
- Lady Ludlow: Then he is not, I think, a tenant of mine. I have no responsibility towards him.
- Mr. Carter: He is a tenant of this Earth, my lady.
- Lady Ludlow: He is guilty of poaching, nothing more.
- Sir Charles Maulver: And nothing less! I am plagued by poachers too, and they're all vagabonds. Vagabonds can be sentenced purely for their way of life. No specific crime is required. That, Lady Ludlow, is the law.