- Paladin: Albert has $8,000 on the Barbary Coast? Well, a lamb in a slaughterhouse has a better chance.
- Big Nellie: You raise to raise your hand in cold blood against a female?
- Paladin: You're gonna have a real good chance to find out!
- [First lines]
- Paladin: As long as we're betting, Jim, let's make it worthwhile. The piano player and the $8,000 he lost against the girl.