[Thinking about Harriet Vane]
Lord Peter Wimsey:
She has a sense of humor... and brains... life wouldn't be dull. One would wake up, and there would be a whole day full of jolly things to do. And then we would come home and go to bed... and that would be jolly too.
Harriet Vane:
Have I got this right? You are proposing marriage to me?
Lord Peter Wimsey:
I don't positively repel you or anything like that, do I?
[Peter is visiting Harriet in prison, meeting her for the first time]
Lord Peter Wimsey:
But, um, you're not opposed to matrimony on principle? I mean if offered on terms not already compromised, and by the right person, naturally.
Harriet Vane:
Oh, no.
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Oh, that's good.
Harriet Vane:
Might I ask why?
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Makes it easier for me, you see.
Harriet Vane:
[after a pause] Have I got this right? You are proposing marriage to me?
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Absolutely right.
Harriet Vane:
[laughing] Do you do this all the time, Lord Peter?
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Only when I'm serious.
Harriet Vane:
And you're serious now?
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Oh, I know I've got a silly face, but I can't help that. And I am. Serious, I mean.
Harriet Vane:
You are bearing in mind, aren't you, that I've had a lover?
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Oh, yes, so've I. Several, in fact. It's the sort of thing that could happen to anyone. I can produce quite good testimonials. I'm told I make love rather nicely. Though I am at a bit of a disadvantage at the moment. One can't be too convincing at the other end of the table with a bloke looking in the window.
Harriet Vane:
I'll take your word for it.
Lord Peter Wimsey:
I-I-I'm not, um, trying to blackmail you into matrimony. I mean, I would investigate this case for the fun of the thing.
Harriet Vane:
That's very good of you.
Lord Peter Wimsey:
No, no, no, not at all, it's my hobby. I mean investigating things, not proposing to people.
Harriet Vane:
Being a writer of detective fiction, I have naturally studied your career with interest.
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Well, that's good, because then you'll understand that I'm not such an ass as I'm appearing at present.
Harriet Vane:
If anybody does marry you, Peter, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle.
Harriet Vane:
Peter, people have been wrongly condemned before.
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Only because I wasn't there.
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Oh, I never thought of that.
Bill Rumm:
We all are like sheep who have gone astray, and well I may say so, for I was a dark and wicked sinner myself, until this here gentleman laid his hand upon me as I was a-bustin' of his safe, and became God's instrument for turning me away from the path that leadeth to destruction.
Chief Inspector Charles Parker:
[writing a note] "Boyes - query arsenic." Anything else?
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Yes. Find out if Boyes visited any pub, in the neighbourhood of Doughty Street between 9:50 and 10:10 on the night of January 20th, if he met anybody, and what he took to drink.
Chief Inspector Charles Parker:
[keeps writing] "Boyes - query pub."
Lord Peter Wimsey:
And thirdly, find out if any bottle or paper that might have contained arsenic was picked up in that district.
Chief Inspector Charles Parker:
Oh, is that all? Well, perhaps you'd also like me to trace the bus ticket dropped by Mrs. Brown outside Selfridge's in the last Christmas rush?
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go see a man about a dog - or I should say, a parson about his son.
Lord Peter Wimsey:
I don't suppose you have the faintest idea how to pick a lock, Miss Murchison?
Miss Murchison:
I'm afraid not - no idea whatsoever!
Lord Peter Wimsey:
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