- Margot Dickey: [cattily interrupting Lily and Archie dancing] Archie's such a good dancer. Are you his Monday night partner?
- Lily Rowan: Ah, yes.
- Margot Dickey: I'm Wednesdays.
- Lily Rowan: Monday nights - regular as pot roast in a diner.
- Nero Wolfe: Christmas - an excuse for wretched excess aptly symbolized by an elephantine elf who delivers gifts to the whole world in one night.
- Archie Goodwin: I'd rather have to eat all the snow that had fallen since noon than explain the wedding license to Stebbins and Cramer.
- Archie Goodwin: Cramer wasn't buying any part of it, which was unjustified, since some of it was true.