- Arsène Lupin: [fetching Sonia's evening gown from the maid and holding it up to admire it] Well, here we are. It's very nice! It's a little naughty. It's very ni - Do you think your father the general would approve of this?
- Sonia: My father the general always said that a gentleman was a man who never went to bed with his spurs on.
- Arsène Lupin: Isn't that a pity. I'm so fond of horses. I could give up riding...?
- Sonia: Give me that dress!
- Arsène Lupin: You can't get into it alone
- Sonia: The maid will help me.
- Arsène Lupin: The maid? I know more about unhooking than any maid in Paris.
- Sonia: Yes, but I want this one hooked.
- [she reaches for the dress, which he holds out of reach]
- Sonia: I'm going to stay right here in this bed until you leave this room!
- [Chamerace walks over to the window and prepares to toss out the dress]
- Sonia: What are you doing?
- Arsène Lupin: Well, if you're going to stay in bed you won't need the dress.
- Sonia: [to Chamerace, who has entered his bedroom to find her naked in his bed] Stay out of here. Stay out of here!
- Arsène Lupin: How do you do?
- Sonia: Close that door!
- Arsène Lupin: Certainly.
- [closes door, staying inside the room]
- Sonia: Won't you please go?
- Arsène Lupin: Certainly. But first, let me ask, how do you like my bed?
- Sonia: Well, I didn't mean to, really. I was cold.
- Arsène Lupin: Oh, yes, it is a cold night for May. However, don't you think Paris is charming in the spring?
- Sonia: Well, I prefer Russia. You see, I come from there.
- Arsène Lupin: Really? How delightful! I have a passion for caviar. Was your father, the general - I presume your father was a general?
- Sonia: Of the Imperial Army.
- Arsène Lupin: Ah, yes. Was your father, the general, fond of caviar?
- Sonia: He ate it on pancakes, for breakfast.
- Arsène Lupin: Did he?
- [They laugh]
- Arsène Lupin: Stay for breakfast. We'll have caviar.
- Sonia: Sir, aren't you overstepping the bounds of convention?
- Arsène Lupin: My dear lady, didn't you leave those behind when you stepped into my bed?
- Sonia: Oh, I assure you, my being here is no pleasure.
- Arsène Lupin: Ah, but the night is still young.
- Sonia: Oh, sir!
- [she re-arranges herself in the bed, and Chamerace can see her naked back]
- Arsène Lupin: Pardon me, but I think your dress has slipped
- Sonia: I haven't any on.
- Arsène Lupin: Is that a little Russian custom? Hmm?
- Arsène Lupin: [to Sonia] Do you want to go back to your solitaire, or would you prefer something that requires *two* people?
- Sonia: There's something exciting about Arsène Lupin. Of course, a man like you wouldn't understand that.
- Arsène Lupin: You'd better watch it, gentlemen. And, uh, by the way, if he, uh, if he attempts to escape, perhaps you'd have to shoot.
- Sheriff's Man: To kill?
- Arsène Lupin: Well, the reward said 'Dead or alive', didn't it?
- Arsène Lupin: [rushing in with the Mona Lisa wrapped around his umbrella] I've got it! I got it right under Guerchard's nose. Look! There she is, wrapped around my umbrella, but still smiling.
- [He lets out his peculiar, snorting laugh]
- Arsène Lupin: Gournay-Martin!
- Gaston Gourney-Martin: Chamerace! When did you get down?
- Arsène Lupin: Just a few minutes ago. I thought you were Arsène Lupin!
- Gaston Gourney-Martin: And I thought you were!
- Arsène Lupin: You, uh, appear to be robbing your own safe.
- Gaston Gourney-Martin: No, no, no. You see, I have a lot of bonds in there. And I was a bit nervous. Bonds, they say, I got illegally. But nevertheless, I want to keep them.
- Arsène Lupin: I don't blame you. It's a funny-looking safe you've got there. It, uh, has no combination.
- Gaston Gourney-Martin: No, it hasn't. Open it.
- Arsène Lupin: What?
- Gaston Gourney-Martin: Go on, open it.
- Arsène Lupin: All right.
- [Lupin confidently reaches for the handle and gets electrocuted. He screams in pain]
- Gaston Gourney-Martin: [laughing] That's the electric current! Try to get away.
- Arsène Lupin: Damn it, I can't! This is a great idea. I congratulate you.
- [He touches Gournay-Martin, zapping him]
- Gaston Gourney-Martin: That hurts!
- Arsène Lupin: Yeah, doesn't it? Can't you get your hand away?
- Gaston Gourney-Martin: No, I can't. Wait till I turn off the switch!
- [He does so. Lupin relaxes]
- Gaston Gourney-Martin: Well, I'm very well protected against our friend Lupin, don't you think?
- Arsène Lupin: I should say so. You know, you'd be just as well off if I weren't here.
- Arsène Lupin: If you sleep through what I'm going to do to you, you're not the woman I think you are.
- [He calmly pours a jug of water over Sonia, interrupting her feigned trance, then leaves]