- Paul Drake: Uh, doesn't this come under the general heading of breaking and entering?
- Perry Mason: No, Ellen gave me her key. Besides, we have Lieutenant Tragg's permission.
- Paul Drake: That was ten days ago.
- Perry Mason: He didn't set any time limit.
- [last lines]
- Perry Mason: Peter, what's the real reason you're hanging around and interfering so much?
- Pete Norland: Well, now, if you'd, uh, really like to know, I've been trying to get up, uh, enough nerve to, um, ask Miss Carter to marry me.
- Pete Norland: For an hour I've been pacing up and down in front of your building, Mr. Mason, like a picket without a sign board.
- Pete Norland: I can't decide whether coming here makes me a double-crosser or a knight on a white mustang.
- Perry Mason: Sit down. Sounds as though you have a very serious problem.
- Pete Norland: [singing] This train don't pull no sleepers, this train.
- Joseph Kraft: Will you stop that? What do you think this is - some kind of coffeehouse or beatnik joint?
- [first lines]
- Joseph Kraft: [to bookstore clerk] Miss Carter, these I'm taking. Three twenty-fives, one fifty, and two one dollar ones. Even Einstein would have to admit that's three dollars and a quarter.