Perry Mason (TV Series)

The Case of the Borrowed Baby (1962)

Barbara Hale: Della Street

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Quotes 

• Perry Mason : I almost wish I'd specialized in something a little less strenuous than criminal law.

  Della Street : [laughs]  You know you don't mean that.

  Perry Mason : No, but I do wish we didn't have to finish that brief tonight.

  Della Street : I was hoping you'd forgotten.

  Perry Mason : And if I had?

  Della Street : Like a good, dutiful secretary, I would have reminded you... maybe.

• [last lines] 

  [as the baby, Leander, who Della has been taking care of, is leaving with his mother] 

  Paul Drake : Della, why all the tears? Everything turned out pretty well.

  Della Street : Wouldn't you cry, too, if... you lost the only baby you ever had?

• [first lines] 

  Perry Mason : Why the sigh? I thought the dinner was excellent.

  Della Street : It isn't the dinner. I'm merely letting out my breath.

  Perry Mason : Your breath?

  Della Street : I've been holding it ever since we sat down. Do you realize that this is the first meal we've had in weeks that hasn't been interrupted by a frantic phone call from someone... the office or a worried client?