- Richard Trevelyan: You can sleep in the den. There's a lock on the door.
- Shelley Carnes: Do I need it?
- Richard Trevelyan: I want you to feel that you're safe.
- Shelley Carnes: From what?
- Richard Trevelyan: From your thoughts.
- Shelley Carnes: [Bringing in luggage from the nighttime rain] Well thanks. There were two bags in the car. How'd you know I needed the small one?
- Richard Trevelyan: A woman usually carries her night things in the smallest bag.
- Shelley Carnes: You're much too wise to be a bachelor. Are you married?
- Richard Trevelyan: I was.
- [Long pause]
- Richard Trevelyan: I think I should tell you there's no one else in the house.
- Shelley Carnes: Should I scream?
- Richard Trevelyan: No one would hear you.
- Shelley Carnes: Then I'll save my breath.
- Salesman: [Speaking to the guy across the aisle] Mighty nice territory out here.
- [Turns his attention to the woman reading a book sitting at his left]
- Salesman: Mighty nice.
- Bus Passenger: Yeah, it was nice territory until a foreigner like Trevelyan came in and dirtied it up a little.
- Salesman: [Looking down at the womans crossed legs] They say she was quite a dish.
- Bus Passenger: Who, the woman on the jury?
- Salesman: Nu-uh. The wife... Lorraine. It's always the good lookers that get into trouble.
- [Cocks hat back and looks into her face]
- Salesman: Nobody bothers to kill the dogs.
- [Leans in towards her]
- Salesman: You ought to be extra careful, little lady, with your looks.
- Myra Nolan: [after Turner recites some ancient poem] You're a nice boy, Harvery, but you musn't make a fool of yourself.
- Harvey Fortescue Turner: You'll have to blame my father. He gave me $100 for every poem I could reel off from memory. I soon went through the money in several blonde enterprises but I never forgot the poems.
- Liza McStringer: [after storming through the door] I heard it... But I didn't believe it. The wedding feast.
- Richard Trevelyan: I thank you for your congradulations, Liza.
- Liza McStringer: So you married him. In spite of everything you actually married him.
- Shelley Carnes: Why not? If I love him.
- Liza McStringer: You fool. You don't love him. You're fascinated by the smell of murder.
- Richard Trevelyan: That's enough, Liza.
- Liza McStringer: Ask at any prison. They'll tell you about women who send love letters to murderers. Who send them flowers and money. So you just gone them one better.
- Shelley Carnes: What's happened to you, Liza? You of all people. You voted for Tri's acquittal.
- Liza McStringer: Not because I thought he was innocent. But because I thought Lorraine deserved killing.
- Shelley Carnes: [after reading Accused Wife Killer Freed on paper handed to her] So you're Richard Trevelyan? What was she like?
- Richard Trevelyan: [Chuckling] She was very beautiful. Attractive. Full of laughter. And very evil.
- [hands her a candle]
- Richard Trevelyan: You can sleep in the den. There's a lock on the door.
- Shelley Carnes: Do I need it?
- Richard Trevelyan: I want you to feel that you're safe.
- Shelley Carnes: From what?
- Richard Trevelyan: Your thoughts.
- Myra Nolan: Sorry. I thought I'd better do something to get you up.
- Shelley Carnes: What time is it?
- Myra Nolan: After two. You slept the clock around. Do you often do that?
- Shelley Carnes: I'm in the theater. That's why people become actors, so they can sleep late.
- Bus Passenger: [Waking up his friend holding the newspaper headline] Hey, Al. It beats me, Al. It just beats me.
- Bus Passenger: [Trying to sleep] Oh, forget it, Tom.
- Bus Passenger: They had him dead to rights.
- Bus Passenger: Get some sleep, Tom.
- Bus Passenger: And what about the towel he buried?
- Bus Passenger: We've been all through that, Tom.
- Bus Passenger: He bought his way out, I tell ya. He was rich when he bashed her head in and now he's poor. I guess he figured he couldn't spend his money dangling at the end of a rope, so instead he pulled a few strings. Get it, Al? Rope? Strings?
- Bus Passenger: Oh.
- Bus Passenger: What'd you say, Al?
- Bus Passenger: If you don't shut up Tom there's going to be another murder in these parts!