Pauline Yates credited as playing...
Elizabeth Perrin
- Reginald Perrin: [On the phone] Uh-hmmm. Oh, dear. Oh, dear, oh, dear. Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh dear. Yes, right, certainly, officer, right. OK, goodbye.
- [Hangs up]
- Elizabeth Perrin: Reggie, what's the matter?
- Reginald Perrin: Oh, McBlane broke an arm last night. I have to go and bail him out.
- Elizabeth Perrin: Bail? I didn't know breaking an arm was an offense.
- Reginald Perrin: Oh, yes, if it's someone else's arm, darling.
- C.J.: But I wonder if you all would like to hear an extract from my novel on - ants!
- Elizabeth Perrin: Novel!
- Reginald Perrin: Ants!
- C.J.: I know what you're going to say...
- Perrin's Staff Members: [all speaking together] You didn't get where you are today by writing a novel about ants!
- C.J.: Exactly, but it's never too late for a leopard to change horses in mid-stream.
- Reginald Perrin: What is your novel called, C.J.?
- C.J.: I haven't decided between Watership Anthill, Plague Ants, Lord of the Ants, Ants of the Flies, Charley's Ant or No Sex Please, We're Ants.
- Reginald Perrin: Yes, I can see the difficulty, C.J. Tricky choice, tricky choice! It would be too much bother for you to go and get the book.
- C.J.: [Pulls manuscript from his pocket] I just happen to have an extract here with me.
- Reginald Perrin: Oh, dear.
- C.J.: [reading] "The owl led Thrugwash Blunt through the forest and then suddenly without any warning-"