- Perry Mason: [answers the phone] Hello. Oh, Paul. How's the party?
- Paul Drake: It died. So did the hostess.
- [first lines]
- [Merle sleepwalks to her cousin's house next door; while lying on a couch, Julian halfway notices her]
- Julian Kirk: She walks in beauty like the night. The question is, why? Escape from the wicked aunt? Lure of forbidden pleasures? Or do you just want a neighbor to play jacks with you?
- [pause]
- Julian Kirk: No, I-I apologize for that last remark. You have grown up, little cousin, in a manner of speaking. Is that it? Have your tender ears picked up whispers? Well, it's all true, darling. I'm depraved, unregenerate, a deceiver of women. So you slink over here by moonlight in your most fetching negligee, clutching a teddy bear. No, no, little cousin. Not you.
- [sits ups and really looks at her]
- Julian Kirk: Merle?
- [realizes she is sleepwalking]
- Julian Kirk: Good heavens. Come along. You'll sleep better in your own little crib.
- [last lines]
- Julian Kirk: [referring to Perry, Della, and Paul] Merle, I think you owe these people a very very large encomium.
- Merle Telford: What for, Julian?
- Julian Kirk: Well... thanks. For saving your life.
- Merle Telford: Oh, I was going to give them all a big kiss for that, silly.
- Merle Telford: Everybody will be squishy by 11:00. We can sneak out then. We'll drive, Danny... anywhere in the world.