- Gideon Long: And then, of course, there was a crisis in the kitchen, and someone spilled some claret over my favorite polar bear.
- [first lines]
- Perry Mason: [reading from the cover of a book] "Sensational novel by 20-year-old Deborah Dearborn."
- Stephanie Carew: I'm surprised you haven't read it yet. Everyone else has.
- [last lines]
- Deborah Dearborn: But only to protect me. That's all he was trying to do. That's all that's really important.
- Perry Mason: No, the courts will still have to...
- Della Street: Oh, Perry. She means important to her. Johnny finally got up and did something.
- Deborah Dearborn: What else is important to a woman?