古墓之谜 30

Twenty-nine,L’ENVOI,There isn’t really any more to say about things.,They got “Father” Lavigny and the other man just as they were going to board a steamer ¹ atBeyrouth.,Sheila Reilly married young Emmott. I think that will be good for her. He’s no door-mat—he’ll keep her in her place. She’d have ridden roughshod over poor Bill Coleman.,I nursed him, by the way, when he had appendicitis ² a year ago. I got quite fond of him. Hispeople were sending him out to farm in South Africa.,Dr.?Reilly usually looks me up when he’s in England, and as I said, it’s he who’s got me intothis. “Take it or leave it, ” I said to him. “I know the grammar’s all wrong and it’s not properlywritten or anything like that—but there it is.”,And he took it. Made no bones about it. It will give me a queer feeling if it’s ever printed.,M.?Poirot went back to Syria and about a week later he went home on the Orient ⁵ Express andgot himself mixed up in another murder. He was clever, I don’t deny it, but I shan’t forgive him ina hurry for pulling my leg the way he did. Pretending to think I might be mixed up in the crimeand not a real hospital nurse at all!,Doctors are like that sometimes. Will have their joke, some of them will, and never think ofyour feelings!,I’ve thought and thought about Mrs.?Leidner and what she was really like .?.?. Sometimes itseems to me she was just a terrible woman—and other times I remember how nice she was to meand how soft her voice was—and her lovely fair hair and everything—and I feel that perhaps, afterall, she was more to be pitied than blamed. .?.?.,When does your steamer sail?你们的轮船什么时候启航？,He came down with appendicitis.他得了阑尾炎 。