- [Wimsey and Bunter present their papers to the German border policeman]
- Border policeman: Ah! An Englischer aristokrat.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Put like that, it sounds like an insult.
- Border policeman: In Germany, it is the people who rule.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: I see from the paper that there will be elections soon?
- Border policeman: Ja, it is likely.
- Lord Peter Wimsey: Chancellor Bruning's emergency powers will be short-lived?
- Border policeman: You are interested in our domestic politics?
- Lord Peter Wimsey: If no man is an island, then assuredly no country can be.
- Border policeman: Except yours, Lord Wimsey.