- Jonathan Strange: [reading a list] "Mrs. Bullworth, Sr..."
- Mrs. Bulworth: My mother-in-law.
- Jonathan Strange: "To be drowned in a laundry tub, to be choked to death on her own apricot preserves, to be accidentally baked in a bread oven..." Forgive me, Mrs. Bulworth, but even the greatest magician who ever lived could not kill the same person three different ways.
- Mrs. Bulworth: Well, as much as you can manage.