- Delia Dettinger: What did you say your name was? My maid told me, but I forgot.
- Adam Dalgliesh: Dalgliesh.
- Delia Dettinger: Oh. That's the soccer star. Liverpool.
- Arnold Dowson: I wasn't Jo's only lover.
- Adam Dalgliesh: Did she tell you about the others?
- Arnold Dowson: No. I think one was a doctor. We were talking about sex and she said a man's nature and character were always absolutely revealed when they made love. She slept with a surgeon, she said, and it was only too obvious that most of the bodies he'd been used to had been anesthetized first.
- [summary of the previous episode]
- Narrator: Adam Dalgliesh has learned from the matron Mary Taylor that one of the dead nurses, Heather Pearce, was a blackmailer. Meanwhile, Dettinger's widow Delia has been warned by the surgeon Courtney-Briggs not to divulge information which her husband gave her, just before his death.