- Audrey Wystan: That's Mercy Charles, the Vice-Chancellor's wife. She used to be a model.
- Horace Rumpole: A model wife or a model model?
- Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard, Q.C.: [Nervously] Rumpole, what's your opinion of secrets in married life?
- Horace Rumpole: Absolutely essential!
- Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard, Q.C.: I mean, Rumpole, how do you find marriage?
- Horace Rumpole: [laughs] In my experience, you don't - it finds you. It comes creeping up unexpectedly and seizes you by the collar.
- [Rumpole and his client Professor Clive Clympton have been talking about the accused's right to silence]
- Horace Rumpole: Professor, you will have to tell us exactly where you were and what you were doing between 9:30 and just after 10 that evening when Mrs O'Leary discovered the Vice Chancellor dead.
- [Clympton looks away and says nothing]
- Horace Rumpole: Where were you that evening, Professor?
- [Clympton still says nothing]
- Horace Rumpole: [losing patience] Oh, very well. Keep quiet. You are entitled to. But there is just one line of Wordsworth that it might pay you to remember. "All silent and all damned".