- Lady Sarah Keach: I take it you don't have much time for London society?
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: I decided when I was in my early twenties that it was rather like a treadmill with canapes, so that's really not for me.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: I just sense there's more to him than meets the eye.
- Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers: With due respect Sir, you sensing that Lachlan's behind this all isn't the same as evidence that he actually is.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: Fair point.
- DC Tremayne: Quiet as a grave down here. Anything on your end?
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: You'll be the first to know, Tremayne. That's why we have walkie-talkies.
- DC Tremayne: Just keeping you informed, Inspector.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: What's Cornwall famous for?
- Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers: Pasties.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: Yeah, well, besides that?
- Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers: Smoked fish.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: Forget the food!
- Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers: I wish I could, but we came out here without breakfast, remember?
- Barbara Havers: [sleepy-eyed] I thought you said we were meeting Tremayne at 9?
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: [all dressed, ready to go] Yeah, we are.
- Barbara Havers: So why've you got me out of bed at 7?
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: Because a thought occurred to me at half-past 6
- Barbara Havers: Couldn't you have quietly mulled it over to yourself?
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: No. Now come on, Havers, follow me.
- Barbara Havers: [indignant] See? Now you want my help, it's bye-bye 'Barbara', hello 'Havers'.
- Mrs. Tremayne: Tell me, Inspector Lynley: How do I tell my children that the daddy they had breakfast with yesterday is gone forever?
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: I don't know.
- Mrs. Tremayne: No? Neither do I.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: It's that we try that makes us heroes. Not that we necessarily succeed.