- Sally Brown: [laughing, coming out of the Hole, with forced vivacity] Oh this fresh air is grand!
- John: Now you must tell me your price.
- Sally Brown: You fancy me, eh? Mmm.
- John: [whispering in her ear] I'd like to make love in the Grecian way.
- Sally Brown: You vulgar old rogue!
- [pushes him]
- Sally Brown: Away with you! All the crown's jewels couldn't buy that. Get out of my sight, you knave!
- Mr. Bridger, the Blind Man: The murderer smelled of several familiar odours; expensive soap. sweat, and very fine woolen clothes and mild Turkish tobacco and also an odour, Inspector, that you could recognise with much ease, I think: alcohol.
- Inspector Selby: Yes, of course. You smell of it.
- Mr. Bridger, the Blind Man: Oh, but that's an easy one. What I detected was a medicinal alcohol and then a real surprise; I also caught a whiff of a rare, medicinal plant of India. It transported me back to the colonies. In England, it's found only in the Botanical Gardens. It is called Akmau.