Lord Edgware Dies人性记录22

Chapter 22, Strange Behaviour of Hercule Poirot,We were in our rooms.,‘What on earth –’ I began.,Poirot stopped me with a gesture more extravagant than any gesture I had ever seen him make. Both arms whirled in the air.,‘I implore you, Hastings! Not now. Not now.’,‘Little man gone out?’ he inquired.,I nodded.,Japp sank into a seat. He dabbed his forehead with a handkerchief. The day was warm.,‘What the devil took him?’ he inquired. ‘I can tell you, Captain Hastings, you could have knocked me down with a feather when he stepped up to the man and said: “I believe you.” For all the world as though he were acting in a romantic melodrama. It beats me.’,It beat me also, and I said so.,