Monarch of the Glen (TV Series)

Episode #2.7 (2001)

Susan Hampshire: Molly MacDonald

Quotes 

• Molly MacDonald : Oh, how lovely. You're coming back to spawn at the place of your birth, just like a salmon.

• [first lines] 

  Archie : Now, you will tell Lizzie that I'm sorry I can't be there, but what with everything I have...

  Molly : I'm sure she'll understand. I'll give you a call as soon as I've any news.

  Archie : Right.

  Kilwillie : Good trip, Molly; bring back a bucking son and heir.

  Molly : I'll try.

  [to Hector] 

  Molly : Oh darling, are you absolutely sure you won't come?

  Hector : Childbirth's not really my bag, darling, all that yelling and thrashing about.

  Molly : I'll give you a call as soon as we get to London.

  Hector : I expect a full report: height, weight, condition of teeth, and so on.

  Lexie : I don't think a newborn baby's supposed to have any teeth.

  Hector : I mean the father. Find out when the bounder's going to make an honest woman of my daughter.

• Molly MacDonald : Don't bait your father, dear. He may be an insufferable dinosaur but there's no need to stoop to his level. It's like teasing a child.

• Molly MacDonald : Do you know, I had all three of my children in this house and hector managed, somehow, not to be here each and every time.

  Hector : I couldn't bear to see you suffer, all that thrashing about.

  Molly MacDonald : He was still in the Reserves, of course, when Jamie was born.

  Hector : Posted overseas.

  Molly MacDonald : Cheltenham. And then when you Lizzie came along, he and Kilwillie went off to the Royal Highland Show. Came back three days later, still roaring drunk with some kind of combine harvester.

  Hector : Massey Ferguson 340. Still in perfect working order.

  Lizzie MacDonald : I didn't think we did combine harvesting.

  Archie MacDonald : We don't.

  Molly MacDonald : And then with Archie, we did manage to keep him that time. Locked all the doors, battened down the hatches and then we found a rope ladder hanging down from the tower. Eventually got a phone call two days later from a B&B in, oh where was it again? Stromness.

  Hector : Ullapool, actually.

  Molly MacDonald : I'm not speaking to you.