- Simon Templar: In some parts of the world you get shanghaied or clubbed into voting, or clapped in jail if you don't. But English elections, especially those for the local council, remain pleasantly sedate. Canvassing seems like, uh, an invitation to tea. Nothing so crude as the political hard sale, or even persistence.
- Sam Purdell: I'll think about that, when I'm laying the foundation stone here.
- Simon Templar: You just better make sure it's not your grave stone.