- Miss Cornelia Van Gorder: When you want to fool Auntie, dear, don't bring a gardener with manicured fingernails.
- Miss Cornelia Van Gorder: [the lights go out, calling up the stairs] LIZZIE!
- Lizzie Allen: [with a newspaper in her mouth, swinging a bear trap at the window. Miss Van Gorder comes in and she stops and takes the paper out of her mouth] I see by the paper that the Bat's in the neighborhood. I'm setting a bear trap for him.
- [title card]: Can you keep a secret? Don't reveal the identity of "The Bat". Future audiences will fully enjoy this mystery play if left to find out for themselves.
- Lizzie Allen: This is the happy home of the Heebee-Jeebees. Doors slam loose feet roam around lights go out!
- Miss Cornelia Van Gorder: The lights go out because they're having trouble at the power house.
- Lizzie Allen: For twenty years I've stood by you through Socialism, Theosophism and Rheumatism; but I draw the line at Spookism!
- Miss Cornelia Van Gorder: You'd better go with him.
- Detective Anderson: No use taking unnecessary chances. One is enough to sacrifice!
- Lizzie Allen: That Jap butler gives me the willies. The Flemings through him in with the lease, but I'd throw him OUT!