- [an anonymous person has sent Miss Netley's post office savings book to Campion]
- Albert Campion: Then there are these irregular payments.
- Miss Netley: Birthdays.
- Albert Campion: Ah. People give you money and you pay it into your account. How many birthdays a year do you have? This particular year, did you have a birthday on the 11th and the 13th and the 17th of January? I mean, to add to the birthdays you had in November and December of last year.
- Miss Netley: I don't *have* to talk you.
- Albert Campion: You may find it less painful to talk to me.