[Taking Things Literally dept.]

"It's too far for a man with regular office hours to commute comfortably."

"That hasn't anything to do with it," Frank said. "I don't like it. I wouldn't live in it if it was in Grand Central Station."

"It would look nice in Grand Central Station," Kay remarked. "Model Connecticut Literary Farmhouse. You could charge admission."

***

"I shall require some [hot water] tonight and some again in the morning," Mrs. Osgood said, in a tone which would have frozen any hot water that might have been available.

[Cf. the voice so frosty it might have come out of the martini shaker, from Patricia Moyes.]

***

[Cousins dept.]

"I don't get emotionally attached to the cousins of my clients."

***

"No!" Miss Pomeroy did not quite know why she should have said that when the end of the story had been obvious well in advance, but some sort of exclamation seemed to be called for, and "no!" was adequately brief and pointed.

***

[Bonus: An(other?) attorney named Winterbottom.]