- Inspector Thornton: Did you meet any friends?
- Jonathan Roche: My friends are out of London.
- Inspector Thornton: All of them?
- Jonathan Roche: Both of them!
- Alycia Roche: Intelligent?
- Jonathan Roche: On the contrary - I rated her intelligence even lower than I do yours.
- Alycia Roche: Thank you... dear.
- Alycia Roche: His style reminds me of your early work before you decided to become an intellectual snob.
- Jonathan Roche: Alycia, are you deliberately trying to annoy me?
- Alycia Roche: Not at all.
- Jonathan Roche: Then don't compare a down-and-out hack with one of the Field Marshals of British literature!