We are, apparently. Holly's life ended in the 1950s at a time when Routledge's career was just taking off. Her first professional appearance was as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1952. But Routledge owes her international fame to television most of all, specifically to Hyacinth and Hettie Wainthropp, the unlikely Manchester matron turned private eye. Clearly, she doesn't appreciate the inquiry.
Actors spend their time undertaking other personas.
You make up something which is not a part of you. She has been more blunt before. I winkled her out of some dark corner. I could never use Hyacinth as a way of getting things done - I despise that sort of thing. Routledge played the suburban snob and henpecker in 50 episodes but chucked it in when the scripts started repeating themselves.