- Joanna Burton: [to Jerry] You know, it's striking me as most extraordinary irony that you managed to survive the war with such flying colors yet seem to find the peace so defeating.
- [Jerry goes outside and walks over to Megan, who is sitting on a swing under a tree]
- Megan Hunter: Thanks for pulling me out of the oven.
- Jerry Burton: It's alright. I don't suppose you've changed your mind?
- Megan Hunter: [looking at the ground] No.
- Jerry Burton: Because, I'm absolutely sure you see.
- [Megan looks at him]
- Jerry Burton: Quite, quite certain that to, look after you... to make you happy and keep you from harm, is now the purpose of my life.
- [Megan stares at him]
- Jerry Burton: So there's nothing I can say or do that can make you reconsider?
- [Megan shakes her head]
- Jerry Burton: Not even this?
- [Jerry takes Megan's hand, she stands up and Jerry kisses her. Miss Marple watches happily from the window and Megan realizes that she loves Jerry]
- [last lines]
- Jerry Burton: [voiceover] And so I found myself on another morning, with another girl, and for the first time in my life, I was on the verge of something bright and good.
- [Jerry and Megan ride out of the village together on a motorbike]
- Megan Hunter: I hope my mother isn't boring you. She talks all the time, but in fact says very little.
- Cardew Pye: I often find the most unlikely people doing the most surprising things. Don't you agree, Miss Marple?
- Miss Marple: On the contrary, Mr. Pye, I usually find the most likely people behaving exactly as I would have expected.
- Partridge: I've just heard something terrible, shocking it is.
- Joanna Burton: Don't tell me, the Bring and Buy has been cancelled.
- Miss Marple: I sometimes wonder if the tale bearer is as guilty as the tale maker.
- Cardew Pye: Oops, my dear Miss Marple! You're being moral and forget you're among friends.
- Inspector Graves: I can't help feeling , sir, that in this case, our man is a woman, if you get my drift.
- Jerry Burton: What's that?
- Jerry Burton: [He looks at a photograph] Unh!
- Joanna Burton: It's a photograph of a diseased spleen. Owen gave it to me.
- Jerry Burton: Was he out of chocolate?
- Joanna Burton: He thought I might be interested. I'm not entirely frivolous, you know.
- Jerry Burton: Pretty ropey, I thought.
- Joanna Burton: Hmmmm. There's something on his mind.
- Jerry Burton: Yes, a rotting spleen perhaps... or you?
- Miss Marple: Mr. Burton what about you?
- Jerry Burton: I'm going away.
- Miss Marple: To do what?
- Jerry Burton: Do you know I haven't a clue? I expect I'll find something.
- Miss Marple: Perhaps what you're looking for is right here under your nose.
- Jerry Burton: She doesn't want me Miss Marple.
- [referring to Megan]
- Miss Marple: Faint heart Mr. Burton. I once let someone go. He had... commitments you see... a war to fight. But I've often wondered if under other circumstances I would'e done the same. It seems to me Mr. Burton that, we should count ourselves blessed if we are allowed just one shot at happiness.
- Cardew Pye: Have you met the reverend?
- Jerry Burton: Oh yes.
- Cardew Pye: A being more remote from everyday life I have yet to encounter. He always has his nose buried in Horace or the younger Pliny. He will insist on spouting Latin. I tend more towards the Greek.
- [Suggestively eyeing Jerry Burton]
- Cardew Pye: And you, Mr Burton? What is your inclination?
- Jerry Burton: [Gulps, unable to speak]
- Joanna Burton: Head first over the handlebars, eh Jerry?
- Cardew Pye: [Squeals in delightful surprise] Oh, a tongue with a tang!
- Cardew Pye: Not at all my dear. They'll just think you're a little queer and what, I ask, is wrong with that?
- Joanna Burton: [Said often, after being corrected for referring to someone by the wrong name] That's the one.
- Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop: [referring to the poison pen letters] Been going on for weeks. That's why the Colonel shot himself.
- Miss Marple: Now Maud, we don't know that for sure.