Lord Edgware Dies人性记录10

Chapter 10, Jenny Driver,Our next proceeding was to call upon the doctor whose address the maid had given us.,He turned out to be a fussy elderly man somewhat vague in manner. He knew Poirot by repute and expressed a lively pleasure at meeting him in the flesh.,‘And what can I do for you, M. Poirot?’ he asked after this opening preamble.,‘You were called this morning, M. le docteur, to the bedside of a Miss Carlotta Adams.’,‘You think she was addicted to drugs, then?’,‘Well, professionally, I should hardly have said so. At all events she didn’t take them hypodermically. No marks of the needle. Evidently always took it by the mouth. Maid said she slept well naturally, but then maids never know. I don’t suppose she took veronal every night, but she’d evidently taken it for some time.’,‘What makes you think so?’,‘This, dash it – where did I put the thing?’,He was peering into a small case.,