- Sherlock Holmes: It is unique in my experience to have served the sentence before committing the crime.
- Lord Robert St. Simon: Lord Blackwater said that Mr Holmes has handled cases of this sort before. Though hardly, I imagine, from the same class of society.
- Dr Watson: He would in fact be descending.
- Lord Robert St. Simon: Sir.
- Dr Watson: Well, Mr Holmes' last client of the sort was a king.
- [last lines]
- Sherlock Holmes: How dare you! How dare you make a record of this case!
- Dr Watson: Ho, record. Oh, no no no no no, I'm merely answering an invitation... to another seminar.
- Sherlock Holmes: Really? Well, be quick; we leave in an hour.
- Dr Watson: What for?
- Sherlock Holmes: For heaven's sake, Watson, the performance.
- Sherlock Holmes: I can not expect you to understand how much I envy you. The delight it must be to face an opponent of some worth.
- [first lines]
- Sherlock Holmes: This is the asylum at Varnish.
- Dr Watson: The misery there must be behind those walls. Hm.
- Sherlock Holmes: There's no escape from the terrors of the mind.
- Dr Watson: Indeed. Well, another case concluded.
- Sherlock Holmes: Pah! I needn't have left Baker Street. An observant child could have solved it.