Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (TV Series)

Widdershins (1996)

Patricia Routledge: Hetty Wainthropp

Quotes 

• Robert Wainthropp : [Excited by finding a soccer biography in his uncle's library]  It's a first edition!

  Hetty Wainthropp : Was there a second?

• Hetty Wainthropp : Why did you give him a book about witches?

  Hannah : Well, we were talkin' about it, and he was interested. It's the old religion, isn't it? Never died out... better than ours in some ways.

  Hetty Wainthropp : What ways?

  Hannah : [Knowingly]  Women in control.

• Lottie : [Referring to Hetty's food bag]  Have you got biscuits in there?

  Hetty Wainthropp : [Clearly annoyed]  That's for me to know and you to wait till you're offered. Who are you?

• Hetty Wainthropp : There's a smell of death in this village.

  Robert Wainthropp : [Unaffected by what she has just said he continues reading]  All right.

  Hetty Wainthropp : [She repeats with great emphasis and deliberstion]  A smell of death, Robert.