- Dian de Momerie: I love you, Harlequin.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Pity. Your lovers seem to have a knack of coming to a bad end.
- Dian de Momerie: [to Whimsey in his harlequin outfit hiding in a tree] What do you want to behave like an idiot for?
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Advertisement chiefly. One must be different. I'm Always different.
- Dian de Momerie: It's a cheap way of producing an effect.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: It is good enough for gin-soaked minds or such as you. if you will pardon me, subtlety will be wasted.
- Dian de Momerie: I wish you'd come down here.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Possibly, but I prefer to be looked up to.
- Dian de Momerie: [to an unseen Wimsey] I hate you!
- Lord Peter Wimsey: [Up in a tree in costume] Then you're on the high road to loving me, which is only natural. We needs must love the highest when we see it. Can you see me?
- Dian de Momerie: Not very well.
- Dian de Momerie: [With a seductive tone] Come down, Harlequin. I wish you to come down. If you came down, I could see you better.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: And love me better perhaps?
- Dian de Momerie: Perhaps.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Then I'm safer where I am, knowing what happens to your lovers.
- Dian de Momerie: Come down, Harlequin, and I'll show you how to get a kick out of life.
- [She laughs]
- Lord Peter Wimsey: [Jumping off the back of the tree to the ground unseen] Well?
- Dian de Momerie: [Somewat seductively] Will I do?
- Lord Peter Wimsey: For what?
- Dian de Momerie: For you.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: And what are you good for me?
- Dian de Momerie: I'm beautiful.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Not as beautiful as you were, and in five years time you will be ugly.
- Dian de Momerie: I wouldn't want you for five years.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: And I wouldn't want you for five minutes.