“Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?”

“Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.”

“You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.”

“Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.”

“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”

“They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.”

“She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She wanders away and comes back again.”