- [On learning he must face an ordeal]
- Richard Oliver Mayhew: Is it the kind of ordeal like visiting a rather bad tempered, elderly female relative is an ordeal, or is it more the plunging your hand into a pot of scalding water to see how quickly it strips the skin off sort of ordeal?
- Richard Oliver Mayhew: This ordeal of yours, how much of an ordeal is it? Is this the kind of ordeal like going to visit a rather elderly, ill-kempt, and female relative is an ordeal? Or is this kind of ordeal more like a... like a plunging your hand into scalding hot water to see how fast it takes off the skin sort of ordeal?
- The Abbott of the Black Friars: Now for the nice cup of tea.
- Richard Oliver Mayhew: Is this part of the ordeal?
- The Abbott of the Black Friars: Part of the ordeal for us...
- Richard Oliver Mayhew: Lead on Macduff
- The Abbott of the Black Friars: It's Lay on Macduff but I hadn't the heart to correct him.