Lord Edgware Dies人性记录07

Chapter 7, The Secretary,We had not seen the last of Japp. He reappeared about an hour later, flung down his hat on the table and said he was eternally blasted.,‘You have made the inquiries?’ asked Poirot sympathetically.,Japp nodded gloomily.,‘And unless fourteen people are lying, she didn’t do it,’ he growled.,‘I don’t mind telling you, M. Poirot, that I expected to find a put-up job. On the face of it, it didn’t seem likely that anyone else could have killed Lord Edgware. She’s the only person who’s got the ghost of a motive.’,‘I would not say that. Mais continuez.’,‘Well, as I say, I expected to find a put-up job. You know what these theatrical crowds are – they’d all hang together to screen a pal. But this is rather a different proposition. The people there last night were all big guns, they were none of them close friends of hers and some of them didn’t know each other. Their testimony is independent and reliable. I hoped then to find that she’d slipped away for half an hour or so. She could easily have done that – powdering her nose or some such excuse. But no, she did leave the dinner table as she told us to answer a telephone call, but the butler was with her – and, by the way, it was just as she told us. He heard what she said. “Yes, quite right. This is Lady Edgware.” And then the other side rang off. It’s curious, that, you know. Not that it’s got anything to do with it.’,‘Perhaps not – but it is interesting. Was it a man or a woman who rang up?’,‘A woman, I think she said.’,