- Perry Mason: Della...
- Della Street: Mm-hm?
- Perry Mason: ...Della, think like a woman, will you?
- Della Street: I'll try.
- Perry Mason: Number 42. I saw that today. What's wrong with it?
- Della Street: Well, it doesn't belong. Forty-one of them do, but this one doesn't. Reason: her deep-seated inconsistency.
- Perry Mason: You mean she was a normal woman.
- Della Street: I'll try to overlook that.
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- Narrator: It was Emerson who said, "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." You are looking at a kind of better mousetrap right now... and the world of dress design is beating a path to this salon in Southern California.
- Leona Durant: You asked me if Flavia killed herself, and I said she didn't. She couldn't. She wouldn't. And she didn't!