- [last lines]
- Hercule Poirot: Is this gratitude, Hastings? Is it for this that Hercule Poirot exerts his talents on behalf of the world?
- Chief Inspector Japp: You expect gratitude? Don't make me laugh. Now you know what a real detective feels like.
- Hercule Poirot: A *real* detective!
- [Japp smiles and nods]
- Hercule Poirot: Chief Inspector Japp is truly most amusing, do you not think, Hastings?
- Captain Hastings: Oh, yes, most amusing.
- Hercule Poirot: For a policeman.
- Roger Havering: Can we not stop this charade, Chief Inspector?
- Inspector James Japp: I don't know, sir; I've always enjoyed party games.
- Chief Inspector Japp: [Poirot has a slight cold] How's the cold, Poirot?
- Hercule Poirot: It is *not* a cold! It is a deadly fever!
- Hercule Poirot: I shall need at least six... no, no, no. no... eight for de grouse en glaze. I shall ask the hotel to cook us some tomorrow.
- Captain Hastings: It's not like ordering them in a shop, Poirot. I've gotta shoot the damn things.
- Hercule Poirot: I have every faith in your marksmanship, Hastings.
- Hercule Poirot: Hastings, would you please stop tapping your nose in that theatrical manner and tell me all you know?
- Chief Inspector Japp: How many men have ya got?
- Sergeant Forgan: Men, sir? Heh, just the one, sir, him.
- Chief Inspector Japp: Well, you'll have to make optimum use of your resources, won't you?
- Harrington Pace: Fellow asked me the other day, a Bolshie, you know, asked me had I ever actually made anything during my worthless life. "Certainly," I said. "I've made a lot of friends, I've made a lot of enemies, and I've made a lot of money."
- [first lines]
- Archie Havering: Billy-old morning, Uncle Harry.
- Harrington Pace: They'll sort you out a loader.
- Hercule Poirot: Ah, a log fire, one of the better traditions of the English.
- Captain Hastings: Roger was saying you keep an eye on the place for the family?
- Archie Havering: Yes, I'm local. A poor relation is available. Damn ignominious it is too.
- Captain Hastings: Why?
- Archie Havering: Some of my pupils' families live six to a room. This place lies empty forty weeks a year.