- Hercule Poirot: This Gervase Chevenix, it does not occur to him that Poirot is also a man of importance, a man of affairs? And yet he summons me like a mere nobody, an obedient dog!
- Captain Hastings: I take it you'll refuse?
- Hercule Poirot: To refuse, yes, it is my first instinct. But, you know, Hastings, a man with so much arrogance as this, even he may be vulnerable in ways he cannot see.
- Captain Hastings: And he did offer you that mirror.
- Hercule Poirot: That too.
- Captain Hastings: I'll get the tickets tomorrow.
- Chief Inspector Japp: Ah, there you are Poirot... you got any idea how I can get hold of this Saffra ? Some sort of friend of Mrs. Chevenix.
- Captain Hastings: Saffra's dead... she's Vanda's spirit guide.
- Chief Inspector Japp: Ah... I might as well be off then.
- Chief Inspector Japp: You'd been told about his death?
- Vanda Chevenix: Oh yes... Saffra told me. She knew.
- Chief Inspector Japp: Did she indeed? Ms Chevenix,can you tell me where I might be able to get hold of this Saffra?
- Vanda Chevenix: [Smile] She used to live in Egypt.
- Chief Inspector Japp: She moved?
- Vanda Chevenix: No!
- [first lines]
- Auctioneer: Ladies and gentlemen, lot 22. An Esker Brant wrought iron wall mirror and console table. I shall open the bidding at thirty pounds. Do I see thirty pounds? Thirty pounds.
- Captain Hastings: This what you came for, Poirot?
- Hercule Poirot: Yes, it is, Hastings; I thought for the vestibule, you know, by the door.
- Auctioneer: Forty pounds.
- Captain Hastings: How high will you go?
- Hercule Poirot: Ninety pounds.
- Auctioneer: Fifty pounds.
- Hercule Poirot: It will be enough.
- [last lines]
- Miss Lingard: Mr Poirot, I don't want Ruth to see me. I don't care what happens to me, but please, don't let her see me...
- [breaks down]
- Hercule Poirot: You have my word.