Giles And Mary Quotes

I believe that you wanted to love Marie—that you’re enamored by the idea of love—but that you have no concept what love is. I think that’s what you’re searching for in St. Giles—some source of emotion, some inkling of what human feeling really is.

Does that girl work here?' Robbie asked, gesturing at the screen behind which Mary had disappeared. 'All her life,' Sir Giles said. 'You remember Mary, Thomas?' 'I tried to drown her when we were both children,' Thomas said.

evening,

On the morning of Sunday, July 22, 1565, the banns for Mary’s marriage were read in St. Giles Kirk,

Come and sit down over here, Miss Tallant, and stop cowering at the other end of the room. Indeed, if I wished to give chase, ma'am, I should catch you in a moment." Henry bristled immediately. "I never cower!" she said. "And if you did chase me and catch me, you might be sorry." The eyebrows rose above the blue eyes. "I should kick and punch," she declared proudly. "I once gave Giles a black eye." "Giles has my sympathies," he commented dryly. "Stand there and cower, if you must, Miss Tallant. I am going to sit down.

Oh, I am pleased to meet you, your Grace," Henry said brightly. "I'm Henry." He paused for just a moment. "Henry?" he asked faintly, his hand straying again to his quizzing glass. "Henrietta Wilhelmina Tallant, actually," she said candidly. "Is it not a dreadful mouthful? And only my mortal enemies call me Henrietta. It always makes me think of a fat, big-bosomed lady with pale hair and puffy face, reclining on a sofa with a lapdog and a dish of bonbons." The blue eyes beneath the half-closed lids took on a distinct gleam. "I believe I had better call you Miss Tallant," Eversleigh said. Henry had noticed the gleam. "Oh, dear," she said contritely, "my wretched tongue! I should not have mentioned bosoms, should I? Indeed, Giles warned me about it just a few weeks ago, when I embarrassed poor George and Douglas so. But I forgot already." Eversleigh was saved from the ordeal of having to answer that one when the music began and he realized that it was a waltz tune.