- Chief Inspector Japp: We're doing our own little test right now. Down at the mortuary. Perhaps you'd rather wait in the taxi, Miss Lemon.
- Miss Lemon: No, thank you. I did help in the hospital morgue during the war.
- Hercule Poirot: More filing, Miss Lemon?
- Miss Lemon: Mister Poirot!
- [last lines]
- Hercule Poirot: That is enough! The office of Poirot is closed for business. Miss Lemon, cover up your typewriter. Good day to you, Chief Inspector Japp.
- [Hastings sneezes]
- Hercule Poirot: And, Hastings. will you please go home and nurse your unfortunate affliction.
- Chief Inspector Japp: [to his men] D'you hear that? If there wasn't a lady present, your ears would be burning so much they'd boil what's left of your brains.
- Chief Inspector Japp: Well, at least she came quietly. There's a nice, tidy end to the whole business.
- Hercule Poirot: I do not think so, Chief Inspector. Come, Miss Lemon.
- Chief Inspector Japp: Oh, no.
- Hercule Poirot: There is a mouse in this hole, Miss Lemon. What must the cat do now?
- Miss Lemon: I'm sure I don't know what that means, Mr. Poirot.