云中命案 9

Chapter 9,Elise Grandier,The weather on the following day was of so perfect a nature that even Hercule Poirot had to admitthat his estomac was perfectly ¹ peaceful.,On this occasion they were travelling by the 8.45 Air Service to Paris.,There were seven or eight travellers beside Poirot and Fournier in the compartment ², and theFrenchman utilized ³ the journey to make some experiments. He took from his pocket a small pieceof bamboo and three times during the journey he raised this to his lips, pointing it in a certaindirection. Once he did it bending himself round the corner of his seat, once with his head slightlyturned sideways, once when he was returning from the toilet compartment; and on each occasionhe caught the eye of some passenger or other eyeing him with mild astonishment ⁴. On the lastoccasion, indeed, every eye in the car seemed to be fixed ⁵ upon him.,Fournier sank in his seat discouraged, and was but little cheered by observing Poirot’s openamusement.,‘Evidemment! In truth I admire your thoroughness. There is nothing like ocular demonstration ⁷.,You play the part of the murderer with blowpipe. The result is perfectly clear. Everybody seesyou!’,‘Not everybody.’,‘In a sense, no. On each occasion there is somebody who does not see you; but for a successfulmurder that is not enough. You must be reasonably sure that nobody will see you.’,‘And that is impossible given ordinary conditions,’ said Fournier. ‘I hold then to my theory thatthere must have been extraordinary conditions—the psychological moment! There must have beena psychological moment when everyone’s attention was mathematically centred elsewhere.’,Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的
。,We were glad to have the whole compartment to ourselves.真高兴
，整个客车隔间由我们独享。