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Twenty-five,MRS. LORRIMER SPEAKS,The day was not a bright one, and Mrs. Lorrimer’s room seemed rather dark and cheerless. Sheherself had a grey look, and seemed much older than she had done on the occasion of Poirot’s lastvisit.,She greeted him with her usual smiling assurance.,“It is very nice of you to come so promptly ¹, M. Poirot. You are a busy man, I know. ”,“At your service, madame,
” said Poirot with a little bow.,“We will have tea brought in. I don’t know what you feel about it, but I always think it’s amistake to rush straight into confidences without any decent paving of the way.”,“There are to be confidences, then, madame? ”,Mrs. Lorrimer did not answer, for at that moment her maid answered the bell. When she hadreceived the order and gone again, Mrs. Lorrimer said dryly:,“You said, if you remember, when you were last here, that you would come if I sent for you.,You had an idea, I think, of the reason that should prompt me to send.
”,She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会 。,Not a single one of these conditions can be dispensed with. 这些条件缺一不可
。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》