- Demelza Poldark: [Referring to McNeil] Ross, suppose he suspects?
- Ross Poldark: When you have a mind, you can spin as pretty a yarn as anyone.
- Captain Malcolm McNeil: Daptain, will you allow me to offer you a word of advice?
- Ross Poldark: What is it?
- Captain Malcolm McNeil: Be careful of the law. It's a twisty, cranky old thing, and you may flout it a dozen times, but once it has you in its grip, you'll find it never lets go.
- Demelza Poldark: In gentlefolk society people may not be bothered by such matters. I may have been brought up in the gutter, but, by Heaven, we saw to it that the folk didn't starve.
- Constance Bodrugan: [Disdainfully] Wouldn't know about that... never been in the gutter, my dear.
- Ross Poldark: Francis... Yes, he's behind all of this. Why does he hate us so?
- Demelza Poldark: Because, in God's name, his wife has never stopped loving you.