Poirot (TV Series)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1990)

David Rintoul: John Cavendish

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Quotes 

• [Hastings has accepted an invitation to spend his medical leave at his friend John Cavendish's ancestral home] 

  John Cavendish : I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings.

  Lieutenant Hastings : My dear fellow, after the joys of France, that's just what I want.

• Mrs. Emily Inglethorp : I've told you before.

  John Cavendish : It's none of your business.

  Mrs. Emily Inglethorp : It is my business. Not content with carrying on this sordid affair with this woman, I now find you squandering large sums of money on her.

  John Cavendish : It's not a large sum of money. It's a loan, anyway.

  Mrs. Emily Inglethorp : No! No! My mind is made up and you need not think that any fear of scandal between husband and wife will deter me.

• Lieutenant Hastings : [referring to John Cavendish's mother and her marriage to an outsider twenty years her junior]  It must be a difficult situation for you all.

  John Cavendish : Difficult? It's damnable.

• Judge : John Cavendish, you are charged with the murder of your mother, Mrs. Emily Rose Inglethorp on Tuesday nineteenth day of June, 1917. How do you plead?

  John Cavendish : Not guilty.