After seeing the gun, Quilty cleverly but nervously counter-points the weapon with a non-sequitur comment about Humbert""s poor ping-pong playing - [and in retrospect, Humbert""s inability to hold onto Lolita]:Hey, you""re a sort of bad loser, Captain.] Lanky and tentative, he appears virtuous, innocent of politics, and free of encumbrances to all the well-wishers.Vale cruelly comments after witnessing her daughter become emotionally shattered: "A nervous breakdown.(She is not the same woman who had hired him a few days earlier to spy on Mr.Mulwray.)Woman: Mr.Gittes?Jake: Yes.Woman: Do you know me?Jake: Well, uh, I think I would have remembered.Woman: Have we ever met?Jake: Well, no.Woman: Never?Jake: Never.Woman: That""s what I thought.You see, I""m Mrs.Evelyn Mulwray, you know, Mr.Mulwray""s wife.Jake: (stunned) NOT, uh,thatMulwray!Woman: Yes, Mr.Gittes,thatMulwray.The marriage investigator suddenly realizes he was duped and set up, and used for some other purposes in a deceitful web of double dealings.