- Please do not give me that indulgent smile.
- It's not indulgence, it's affection.
- The relationship between Eliza and William in season one, it's clearly will they, won't they, there there's a spark of interest and what we see now, it has intensified.
- Four dinners in as many weeks, people will begin to gossip.
The courtship is going well.
Just friends, we've been out for a few dinners.
- They are completely bonded from childhood and they cannot let go of each other.
If you wish to have some kind of future with Inspector Wellington you need to start considering what cases you take.
Ones that don't undermine his reputation.
- Who says I wish to have a future with him?
- In our story, there are obstacles in the way.
- You reopened one of my cases.
- Their worlds do collide.
- If you had any respect for me or my position then you would have not reopened it.
- Well, it's a good job I did.
Since you most certainly missed something.
They've yet to navigate their romantic journey and I think we're probably soon to discover that they've got a a lot to resolve personally before they're ready to.
You do not have to justify your life to me.
- I do when you constantly tease me about it.
- Well, they couldn't succeed as a couple right now because personally they'd have to make some serious shifts.
But I'm a professional William.
- I've said that to you many times.
- Not nearly enough.
So they would have to come to some compromise.
And Eliza's not very good at compromising and neither is he.
- I think the big issue that stands in the way or could stand in the way is they each have such strong identities which are so strongly attached to their work.
Just when I think that we understand each other, I can no more comprehend how your mind works than I can of a complete stranger.
- Underneath it all, The Duke is a decent man and she's a wonderful woman who's trying to make her way in the world and I think they deserve each other.
