- Adam Heyward: Well, I don't know what you call it here, but at home we'd say I was a 'character witness'. A witness as to the prisoner's character, my Lord.
- The British Judge: Yes, I see. Let us say rather a witness to the prisoner's reputation.
- Adam Heyward: We would say character, sir.
- The British Judge: Mr Heywood. It was written long ago by an eminent divine, a man's reputation is what his neighbours think of him. His character is what God knows of him.
- Mr. Widgery, Red Lion Proprietor: Before the war, beer was beer, and that's a fact. You know sir, you could come into this place with eighteen pence in your pocket and never know what hit you.
- Adam Heyward: I practise law in New York.
- Richard Beamish, Sam's Solicitor: Indeed? Then you'll understand you have no legal standing in a British court.
- Adam Heyward: I would like to see Sam and then possible after that, we could discuss some plan of attack.
- Richard Beamish, Sam's Solicitor: Attack?
- Adam Heyward: Well, I mean, in court. Strategy.
- Richard Beamish, Sam's Solicitor: Mr Heywood, I am Mr Baxter's solicitor, not his Counsel. Strategy is not in my province. I provide the ammunition, as it were, for Counsel's guns. I bring it up to the front line, to use a military simile, as tight-packed and water-proof as possible, and hand it to the Counsel for his use against the enemy in his own good time. In other words, strategy is entirely the province of the barrister.
- Samuel 'Sam' Baxter: Don't worry about me, Major. It's not the first time it looks as if I'd had it.
- Col. Robert Summerfield: Would you please excuse us? My daughter and I have an engagement every evening after dinner to play one game.