- Helen, Duchess of Denver: He's the only Duke I know who wears ermine as though it were still on the animal.
- Lucius Grant: [In a plane above the Atlantic] We're past the point of no return, so it's England here we come!
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Thank heaven for that!
- Det. Supt. Charles Parker: Suicide... you know the trouble with this case? There were too many clues.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Indeed. Dozens of people with secrets and elopements barging about all over the place.
- Lady Mary Wimsey: Peter, I hate you.
- [Peter laughs]
- Lord Peter Wimsey: I must say, you're looking jolly scrumptious, Polly. Out to impress someone?
- Lady Mary Wimsey: Me?
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Mmm-hmm.
- Lady Mary Wimsey: I don't know what you mean.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Good show, old thing. Keep it up.
- [a few minutes later, Bunter announces another visitor]
- Lady Mary Wimsey: Oh well, in that case, perhaps we'd better...
- Lord Peter Wimsey: No, no, no there's no need to buzz off.
- Lady Mary Wimsey: Well, she'll be much happier without us hanging about.
- [goes to Charles]
- Lady Mary Wimsey: And besides, I...
- Lord Peter Wimsey: You will be much happier without me hanging about, is that it?
- Det. Supt. Charles Parker: What? I don't know what you mean.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Well, that makes two of you, don't it?
- Lord Peter Wimsey: What would you say, Bunter? A satisfactory conclusion?
- Mervyn Bunter: Yes indeed, my lord. Satisfactory in almost every respect.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: In what respect not satisfactory?
- Mervyn Bunter: Something entirely personal to myself, my lord. There is a saying to the effect, "it is better to journey than to arrive."
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Yes, I feel exactly the same. Only this time it's been a lot more exhausting than any I can remember. Too near home, I suppose.
- Mervyn Bunter: My sentiments exactly, my lord.