Joan Greenwood credited as playing...
Lady Warren
- Lady Warren: What progress have you made?
- Father Brown: Looking for a black cat in a coal hole during an eclipse of the sun would be a child's task compared with mine.
- Lady Warren: You put me in mind of the child's poem: "As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish that he would go away."
- Father Brown: I wish that he would come to stay.
- Texan Millionaire: [the Texan approaches Father Brown and Lady Warren as they attempt to spot Flambeau among the bidders] Lady Warren? I am Sam Johnson out of San Antonio, Texas. If isn't often we from Texas get a chance to shake a real, live lady by the hand now!
- Lady Warren: It isn't often that we in London have the privilege of of meeting a real, live Texan.
- Texan Millionaire: You sure talk like a lady. You know, I've come five thousand miles to buy this set of yours. It'll go well down on my ranch.
- Lady Warren: Will it really?
- Texan Millionaire: Yeah ma'am. I've got myself a real swell games room. Solid gold poker chips, solid gold checkers, and a solid gold ping pong table.
- Lady Warren: With solid gold ping pong balls?
- Texan Millionaire: No ma'am. They wouldn't bounce. Well, better get set to rope this steer.
- [He goes to his seat]
- Lady Warren: I feared for a moment he was going to take my hand back to Texas with him, even though it isn't made of gold.
- Father Brown: I doubt if even Flambeau could have invented him.
- Inspector Valentine: [the inspector has just phoned in an all-points bulletin for a stolen milk truck] Your accomplices haven't got a chance. They'll be intercepted within half an hour.
- Lady Warren: Half an hour? Then you've time for a glass of sherry.
- Inspector Valentine: No thank you.
- Lady Warren: Or perhaps a glass of milk? The milkman seems to have left rather a lot today.
- Lady Warren: [referring to the cross of St. Augustine] It's very beautiful. Is it valuable?
- Father Brown: No, not valuable. Priceless.
- Parkinson: Pardon, me lady, but the awful people are coming up the drive!
- Lady Warren: What awful people? It is not my "at home" day.
- Father Brown: I think he means the police.