- Claire Marrable: You are the only mistake I made.
- Alice Dimmock: Didn't you ever think you'd be found out?
- Claire Marrable: No and I won't be.
- Alice Dimmock: Giving yourself away like that...
- Claire Marrable: To you? You are a dead woman.
- Alice Dimmock: Oh no, I'm alive. See, I'm very much alive. And I'm not gonna be your next victim.
- Julia Lawson: You've had such rotten luck with your housekeepers Aunt Claire.
- Claire Marrable: Have I? Actually I think I've done rather well.
- Alice Dimmock: If you want to live like some duchess or maharani you had better learn to behave like one!
- Claire Marrable: [Talking about her neighbor] She's like crabgrass - never really quelled - only cropping up secretly and victoriously in another spot.