Barbara Hale credited as playing...
Della Street
- Perry Mason: I almost wish I'd specialized in something a little less strenuous than criminal law.
- Della Street: [laughs] You know you don't mean that.
- Perry Mason: No, but I do wish we didn't have to finish that brief tonight.
- Della Street: I was hoping you'd forgotten.
- Perry Mason: And if I had?
- Della Street: Like a good, dutiful secretary, I would have reminded you... maybe.
- [last lines]
- [as the baby, Leander, who Della has been taking care of, is leaving with his mother]
- Paul Drake: Della, why all the tears? Everything turned out pretty well.
- Della Street: Wouldn't you cry, too, if... you lost the only baby you ever had?
- [first lines]
- Perry Mason: Why the sigh? I thought the dinner was excellent.
- Della Street: It isn't the dinner. I'm merely letting out my breath.
- Perry Mason: Your breath?
- Della Street: I've been holding it ever since we sat down. Do you realize that this is the first meal we've had in weeks that hasn't been interrupted by a frantic phone call from someone... the office or a worried client?