- [Henry has just eaten a slap-up meal in a restaurant and the proprietor is hassling him to pay the bill. He opens the envelope from the Montpelier brothers and sees the £1 million note]
- Henry Adams: [hesitantly, in shock] I'm awfully sorry. I don't have anything smaller.
- Mr. Reid: Now what about a cycling suit, Mr. Adams ? Cycling is all the rage nowadays. And then of course there is Ascot.
- Henry Adams: I'm not gonna do any cycling and I'm not gonna do any Ascotting. Sailing is my hobby.
- Mr. Reid: Ah ! The sport of kings. Very right and proper for a personage such as yourself.
- Henry Adams: I thought racing was the sport of kings ?
- Mr. Reid: [unperturbed] Then it ought to be sailing !
- [to his assistant]
- Mr. Reid: Nip in the waist a bit.