- Lee Gentry: You know you sometimes make up for your stupidity as a prosecutor, Mr O'Brien, by these outbursts of civic virtue.
- Miss Keeley: Of course what I don't understand Mr Gentry is, well, never mind...
- Lee Gentry: Go ahead - say it.
- Miss Keeley: Why don't you just tell her that you don't love her anymore and get it over with?
- Lee Gentry: I called on Miss Brown last night with that happy notion in mind. And ended up in such an epidemic of kisses, vows, promises. It's discouraging. Leaving a woman, Miss Keeley, is a long and desperate process. Like wrestling with a piece of fly-paper in a high wind.