- Inspector Hawkins: I don't think Mr and Mrs Lucca have too much to fear, but we have to go through the procedures. Take them downstairs. No doubt if you'd been here on your own, Mr Holmes, you'd have found a different solution.
- Sherlock Holmes: The law is what we live with, Inspector. Justice is sometimes harder to achieve.
- [last lines]
- Doctor Watson: [narration] English justice looked kindly on the young couple, and soon afterwards they left for Australia. There they found a new and happier life, free from the threat of the Red Circle.