- Bedelia Carrington: I'm innocent!
- Charlie Carrington: Of what?
- Bedelia Carrington: I hate men. They're rotten beasts. I wish all the men in the world were dead!
- [last lines]
- Ben Chaney: There was no mystery about her motives. She killed for money. But there was still an enigma. The enigma of the soul of a human being who would commit murder. Bedelia could caress and with those same soft hands poison in cold blood. In that delicate balance of good and evil lies the deepest of human mysteries, a problem that no detective, physician or psychologist has ever solved.
- Bedelia Carrington: It's very nice to have money to spend but I'd love you as much if you hadnt any.
- Bedelia Carrington: Did you mean what you said about coming to Yorkshire?
- Ben Chaney: Yes.
- Bedelia Carrington: I wish you wouldn't.
- Ben Chaney: Oh - so that's why are you came down. What about the portrait?
- Bedelia Carrington: The portrait's only an excuse.
- Ben Chaney: An excuse for what?
- Bedelia Carrington: I want you to stay away from me altogether.
- Ben Chaney: Do you? Why?
- Bedelia Carrington: I'm happily married. I intend to remain so.
- Charlie Carrington: Why did you run off?
- Bedelia Carrington: Well, before I married you - please don't be angry with me for saying this - I was poor and lonely. You were attractive. I liked you but I didn't love you. I can tell you this, because now I do... desperately.
- Charlie Carrington: And...?
- Bedelia Carrington: And when I found I loved you you like that, I was frightened and I promised myself that if ever you got tired of me, or were sorry you'd married me, I'd run away.
- [checks to see if he's spotted she's lying]
- Bedelia Carrington: That's all.
- Charlie Carrington: But Bedelia, you wanted me to go with you!