悬崖山庄奇案10

Chapter 10 – Nick's Secret,It was daylight when I awoke.,Poirot was still sitting where he had been the night before. His attitude was the same, but in his face was a difference. His eyes were shining with that queer catlike green light that I knew so well.,I struggled to an upright position, feeling very stiff and uncomfortable. Sleeping in a chair is a proceeding not to be recommended at my time of life. Yet one thing at least resulted from it-I awoke not in that pleasant state of lazy somnolence but with a mind and brain as active as when I fell asleep.,'Poirot,' I cried. 'You have thought of something.',He nodded. He leaned forward, tapping the table in front of him.,I stared. The questions seemed beside the point.,'Answer those questions, Hastings, answer them.','Well-as to the first-she said she had been worried lately.','Precisely. What has she been worried about?','And the black dress-well, everybody wants a change sometimes.',