- Florrie: That's all you can ask, isn't it? Someone who treats you right. Like there's diamonds on your soul.
- Miss Marple: Reminds me of a film I saw during the war. Um, these commandos in Crete stole a German general's car with a wire coat-hanger.
- [bell starts to peal]
- Miss Marple: Oh, is that the time? Marjorie's expecting me back for elevenses. Though where they found a coat-hanger on a Cretan hillside I've no idea.
- [first lines]
- John Carstairs: Why didn't they ask...
- Bobby Attfield: Sorry?
- John Carstairs: Why... didn't they... ask... Evans?
- Bobby Attfield: Evans? Ask him what?