- Bill Kirby: Were you in love with Leo?
- Madame Lafois: Oh I suppose so for a while - not for long. Since then my convictions have greatly changed, Mr. Kirby - not my ideals, mind you, but my convictions have.
- Laura Marshall: You look as though something's wrong.
- Bill Kirby: Everything's wrong! It started as a simple, straight commercial proposition. Make a phone call, arrange a meeting, pass on some information, retire covered in glory and a good deal richer. None of it's happened. I don't really know what the hell's going on or who's involved. I think I've stuck my neck in a damned great noose.
- Laura Marshall: I've just come here to ask you about the things I've been told.
- Bill Kirby: Yes, well, it would be clever of you to do that anyway.
- Laura Marshall: I'm not that clever.
- Bill Kirby: Do you know anyone called Jack Arnold?
- Laura Marshall: No.
- Bill Kirby: American about five foot ten, 35 to 40, fair-haired?
- Laura Marshall: No.
- Bill Kirby: I had dinner with him tonight. He implied that the CIA wanted to do business with me. I think he's lying.
- Laura Marshall: You think everyone is lying.
- Bill Kirby: I told him I tried to contact the Americans. I haven't - it wasn't true. He said that's why he was there. So who the hell is Jack Arnold?
- Laura Marshall: Who do you imagine?
- Bill Kirby: I don't know. Possibly another tentacle of the octopus I've been struggling with. Possibly Russian intelligence - KGB! I don't know, Laura. I just don't know!
- Laura Marshall: He still doesn't like to see you with another woman, though, does he? Even though it doesn't mean anything.
- Bill Kirby: Well, I suppose that's something he'll have to learn to live with in time... When I find someone who isn't so damned neutral.
- [Bill looks meaningfully at Laura]
- Bill Kirby: I could have had copies made.
- Jack Arnold: Well, so what? We're in the information business, not the blackmail business. Evidence to get the investigation started - that's all we're buying.
- Jack Arnold: No people around when I get to see the evidence. When we get down to business, it's got to be so confidential the flies on the wall won't know about it.
- Bill Kirby: Why?
- Jack Arnold: That's the first stupid question you've asked, Mr. Kirby. We're playing against tough opposition. I'm not immortal and you're certainly not. So no crowded restaurants next time, right?