- Jane Geer: Fat coward!
- Nero Wolfe: I hired this man, not out of cowardice but conceit. I am insufferably conceited. Should I be killed, I doubted that the murderer would ever be caught.
- Archie Goodwin: Now listen, Tiger Eyes, do you see me sneaking up behind you?
- Jane Geer: I should have known you have so many women you have to issue ration coupons, and yet you find so much time for me.
- Archie Goodwin: Well, you know why?
- Jane Geer: Do I?
- Archie Goodwin: Tou've got a mirror.
- Jane Geer: [pleased and purring] Mmmmm.
- Archie Goodwin: [to Wolfe] Look, I admit that you're a great detective, a champion beer drinker, and a genius, but this is a hell of a way to spend a war. If Carpenter calls, and you tell him you can't do without me, I am going to put gristle in your crabmeeat and sugar in your beer.