Ripper Street (TV Series)

Your Father. My Friend (2014)

MyAnna Buring: Long Susan

Quotes 

• Long Susan : Tell me something.

  Ronald Capshaw : If it is in my gift to do so, I shall tell it.

  Long Susan : I kept you on after the... loss of Duggan, because, well, you were as one with his affairs, of course. But in truth, I had an instinct about what you were as a man, or rather what you lacked.

  [Capshaw's brow furrows, and she raises a finger] 

  Long Susan : Do not mistake me. It is a quality I would have all men lack. It seemed to me you were happy as you were, you had no need to make the world stand up and applaud your very existence. Was I wrong to judge you so?

  Ronald Capshaw : No... but we all evolve, Miss Susan, do we not? Adapt to the world we find ourselves in. Much like this borough you would shape to a higher ideal. I too, perhaps, feel myself advance, and from there... see further.