- Mary Hunter: [picking up an executioner's axe that conveniently just happens to be lying around] If the door is locked we'll smash it down with this!
- Trude: What's that over there?
- Mary Hunter: It's just an iron statue.
- Trude: [screams] Oh, what on earth?
- Mary Hunter: It's only an ancient instrument of torture.
- Max Hunter: My wife loves any sort of make believe; she's like a child; yesterday, the moment we arrived, I pretended to be a guide on a tour; I showed the rooms with their marvels - also the horrors - contained in this castle .. that's how I happened to tell her about the tortures practised in the Middle Ages; but it was only a game; nothing more: believe me doctor; She may have let her imagination run away.