Mystery!: Cadfael (TV Series)

The Devil's Novice (1996)

Ian Reddington: Peter Clemence

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Leoric Ashby : Master Clemence.

  Peter Clemence : Leoric.

  Leoric Ashby : [to Meriet]  Take his horse, boy. Welcome to Ashby Manor.

  Peter Clemence : [dismounts into a puddle]  The pleasure is all yours... cousin.

• [Clemence is "regaling" the company at dinner] 

  Peter Clemence : ...and the Church is not sure which side the nobles favor in the civil war.

  [pause] 

  Peter Clemence : You *do* know that there is a civil war between King Stephen and his frightful cousin Maud, for the crown of England?

  Meriet Ashby : [levelly]  We have had friends die in it, sir.