- [first lines]
- Stella: So, how many rooms do you have here?
- Archie: Oh, uh, sixty-seven.
- Stella: Sixty-seven rooms to heat, light and maintain? No wonder you're broke.
- Archie: Never needed to. Believe me, Stella, we've already cut our overheads to the bone. If you can find one example of inefficiency, I will be the first to swing the hatchet.
- Stella: So you're back, then.
- Lexie: I heard you had a pool installed upstairs. Thought I might give it a go.
- Stella: You mean Archie worked his masculine charms on you.
- Lexie: I'll tell you about Archie. It takes him a while to get there, but in the end he's loyal to his friends. *That's* why I came back. Loyalty. The only thing you're loyal to is your money. One day you'll find out that your money doesn't give a damn about you.
- Molly MacDonald: You miss having Monty and Rommel to lead you around, don't you?
- Hector MacDonald: [laughing] Yes, they always seemed to know where they were going - happy to get there, even happier to get back... I do miss them, rather, yes.
- Molly MacDonald: Perhaps I could stand in for them.
- Hector MacDonald: Of course you can, darling!
- [tosses the stick he was holding and laughs]
- Hector MacDonald: Fetch?
- Stella: So tell me about Golly. Was he born on the estate?
- Archie: Not exactly. He was hewn out of the same rock as this house. You won't budge him so easily.
- Stella: But he's one of these guys that lives to work, isn't he?
- Archie: You're looking for his weak point.
- Stella: It's standard procedure.
- Archie: According to who? Thatcher's Bumper Book of Strike Busting?