- Burke Devlin: I found someone who has concrete evidence to offer. Vicki Winters.
- Sheriff George Patterson: What? The young governess up at Collinwood? What does she know about it?
- Burke Devlin: Well, I want you to ask her that tonight.
- Sheriff George Patterson: It's a little late to be paying a call up there, isn't it? Are you sure she knows anything?
- Burke Devlin: She knows enough so that a half an hour ago, someone tried to kill her.
- Victoria Winters: My name is Victoria Winters. Ever since I arrived at Collinwood, this gloomy old mansion on the crest of Widows' Hill, has held nameless fears for me. Most of it stemming from the time I saw a dead man washed up at the foot of the cliff. A case that has been declared an accident but still has not been marked "closed" by the sheriff.