Lauren Bacall credited as playing...
Lady Westholme
- Lady Westholme: Miss Quinton, you've caused much anxiety.
- Miss Quinton: Oh, really? Oh, dear. Well, we were only in the next valley.
- Lady Westholme: You were?
- Jefferson Cope: We enjoyed an Arabian night in the desert.
- Miss Quinton: It was great fun.
- Lady Westholme: I can imagine it was.
- Lady Westholme: I don't know I'm sure whether we should partition Palestine or not. Maybe we should have left it to the Turks.
- Hercule Poirot: Lady Westholme, I badly need your help.
- Lady Westholme: Fire away. Miss Quinton and I will do our best. When it comes to matters of public duty, one must be punctilious.
- Lady Westholme: She started to attack me because the British do not want Mrs Simpson to marry their King. It must be the only subject on which she and I could possibly agree.
- Lady Westholme: Lord Peel heads a Royal Commission. On his judgment alone rests the fate of Palestine.
- Hercule Poirot: A task for Solomon.
- Lord Peel: The Arabs wouldn't think so.
- Lady Westholme: Having failed to ruffle my feathers, she picked an argument with one of the Arabs. She seemed very annoyed with him. Having servants about who cannot speak a word of English is very trying.
- Lady Westholme: Time is pressing on, Monsieur Poirot, and I can't see that this is leading anywhere. Can you, Colonel Carbury?
- Colonel Carbury: Better let Monsieur Poirot proceed in his own manner, dear lady. He usually gets there in the end.
- Hercule Poirot: Usually? Always.
- Lady Westholme: I suppose I ought to say sorry about your Mrs Simpson. I'm very disappointed. I would have expected an American woman to navigate skilfully onto the throne.