- Lord 'Lofty' Lofthouse: She has no respect for the rules!
- Phryne Fisher: That's because they tend to be written by men.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: You're afraid if you fall in love with me, I'll turn you into a policeman's wife. Try to stop you saving the world.
- Phryne Fisher: Well, it can't happen; I'm already a married woman.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: I don't need to marry you. I just need your heart, because God knows you've got mine.
- Phryne Fisher: Jack... I gave you that a long time ago. For a detective, you don't notice much.
- Phryne Fisher: He could be deranged and dangerous.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: That would make two of you.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: I'm not losing you like this. Not after all the other stupid ways I've nearly lost you.
- Phryne Fisher: You know the quickest way of getting rid of me?
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: Tie you up. Dump you in that river.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: Is this your idea of sweet nothings?
- Phryne Fisher: I thought they were out of the question.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: They are. Continue.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: What's that?
- Phryne Fisher: Something we need to keep from the police.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: 'We'?
- Phryne Fisher: It's my only fear, Jack. Except spending a long-distance flight with Aunt Prudence.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: I don't think that's true.
- Phryne Fisher: No? What else am I afraid of?
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: Me.
- Phryne Fisher: By the way, there wasn't really a tarantula.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: Good. I didn't really shoot one.
- Phryne Fisher: If I need your help, I'll ask for it.
- Detective Inspector Jack Robinson: I won't hold my breath!
- Sir Vincent 'Monty' Montague: And how do you explain your other activities? Trespassing on administrative offices to steal official documents, dancing in the streets after 9pm in open defiance of the military curfew, or blatantly associating with undesirables of the Black Hand organization?
- Phryne Fisher: Actually, I was dancing with the undesirables, and I found several of them to be quite desirable.