Lord Edgware Dies人性记录24

Chapter 24, News From Paris,On the following day we had an unexpected visit.,Geraldine Marsh was announced.,I felt sorry for her as Poirot greeted her and set a chair for her. Her large dark eyes seemed wider and darker than ever. There were black circles round them as though she had not slept. Her face looked extraordinarily haggard and weary for one so young – little more, really, than a child.,‘I have come to see you, M. Poirot, because I don’t know how to go on any longer. I am so terribly worried and upset.’,His manner was gravely sympathetic.,‘Ronald told me what you said to him that day. I mean that dreadful day when he was arrested.’ She shivered. ‘He told me that you came up to him suddenly, just when he had said that he supposed no one would believe him, and that you said to him: “I believe you. ” Is that true, M. Poirot?’,‘It is true, Mademoiselle, that is what I said.’,‘I know, but I meant not was it true you said it, but were the words really true. I mean, did you believe his story?’,Terribly anxious she looked, leaning forward there, her hands clasped together.,