Marple (TV Series)
The Murder at the Vicarage (2004)
Christina Cole: Lettice Protheroe
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Quotes
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Colonel Protheroe : [referring to the artist, Lawrence Redding, while at the dinner table] I forbid you to see him again!
Lettice Protheroe : He was only painting me.
Colonel Protheroe : [disbelieving] Oh!
Lettice Protheroe : But I wish he were doing something, with all the stupid fuss you're making.
Colonel Protheroe : Don't be common!
Lettice Protheroe : Well, don't be horrid, then! You've already driven the DuFosses to bed because of your foul mood.
Colonel Protheroe : Well, you can go, too!
Lettice Protheroe : Gladly!
[throws napkin on the table, gets up and walks off]
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[Colonel Protheroe discovers that the artist Lawrence Redding has been painting a portrait of his daughter in her bathing suit]
Lettice Protheroe : It - it's more artistic.
Colonel Protheroe : There's art, and there's SMUT! How dare he! And how dare you!