Lord Edgware Dies人性记录08

Chapter 8, Possibilities,Japp had to leave us. Poirot and I turned into Regent’s Park and found a quiet seat.,‘I see the point of your rose between the lips now,’ I said, laughing. ‘At the moment I thought you had gone mad.’,He nodded without smiling.,‘You observe, Hastings, that the secretary is a dangerous witness, dangerous because inaccurate. You notice that she stated positively that she saw the visitor’s face? At the time I thought that impossible. Coming from the study – yes, but not going to the study. So I made my little experiment which resulted as I thought, and then sprung my trap upon her. She immediately changed her ground.’,‘No, no.’,‘Why, Poirot, I think a voice and the general gait are about the most characteristic things about a person.’,‘I agree. And therefore they are the most easily counterfeited.’,‘You think –’,‘Cast your mind back a few days. Do you remember one evening as we sat in the stalls of a theatre –’,