云中命案 25

Chapter 23,Anne Morisot,At half past ten on the following morning the melancholy ¹ M. Fournier walked into Poirot’s sitting-room ² and shook the little Belgian warmly by the hand.,His own manner was far more animated ³ than usual.,‘Monsieur,’ he said, ‘there is something I want to tell you. I have, I think, at last seen the pointof what you said in London about the finding of the blowpipe.’,‘Ah!’ Poirot’s face lighted up.,Poirot listened attentively ⁴, but said nothing.,‘That day in London you said, Why was the blowpipe found, when it might so easily have beenpassed out through the ventilator? And I think now that I have the answer. The blowpipe wasfound because the murderer wanted it to be found.’,‘Bravo!’ said Poirot.,‘That was your meaning, then? Good, I thought so. And I went on a step further. I ask myself:,Why did the murderer want the blowpipe to be found? And to that I got the answer: Because theblowpipe was not used.’,He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.这次考试没通过
，他感到很郁闷
。,The sitting-room is clean.起居室很清洁。