- Richard Hannay: So, what's the story?
- Scudder: [hesitantly] I am a freelance agent for the British Secret Service Bureau.
- Richard Hannay: My housekeeper told me you were an accountant.
- Scudder: I don't make a habit of telling people that I'm a spy. Last night I was supposed to meet someone from the Bureau to exchange information, but it was a double-cross. Obviously I've been betrayed. I've been on the trail of a German espionage ring and I've tracked down their headquarters to a village in Scotland.
- Richard Hannay: [sarcastically] You should contact the Weekly News. They're offering ten pounds to anyone spotting a German agent. An espionage ring could make you a very wealthy man.
- Victoria Sinclair: Why don't we steal that car and leave it in the next town.
- Richard Hannay: Because it belongs to those two men up there. They're German spies who are chasing me with a view to ending my life.
- Victoria Sinclair: You're not just a murderer but a delusional maniac - just my luck.
- Richard Hannay: Well at least you're only a spy and not a suffragette.
- Victoria Sinclair: Well, actually I'm a spy /and/ a suffragette.
- Richard Hannay: Oh Lord!
- Victoria Sinclair: I don't believe in violence.
- Richard Hannay: Course you believe in violence - you're a suffragette. You fire-bomb the homes of politicians.
- Victoria Sinclair: What! You'd rather I sat at home warming your slippers?
- Richard Hannay: I don't want you *touching* my slippers.
- Victoria Sinclair: You're a prehistoric boor.
- Richard Hannay: You, my dear, are an unhinged hysteric.