ABC谋杀案 7

Six,THE SCENE OF THE CRIME,The street in which the tragedy had occurred was a turning off the main street. Mrs. Ascher’s shopwas situated ¹ about halfway ² down it on the right-hand side.,As we turned into the street Poirot glanced at his watch and I realized why he had delayed hisvisit to the scene of the crime until now. It was just on half past five. He had wished to reproduceyesterday’s atmosphere as closely as possible.,But if that had been his purpose it was defeated. Certainly at this moment the road bore verylittle likeness ³ to its appearance on the previous evening. There were a certain number of smallshops interspersed ⁴ between private houses of the poorer class. I judged that ordinarily there wouldbe a fair number of people passing up and down—mostly people of the poorer classes, with a goodsprinkling of children playing on the pavements and in the road.,At this moment there was a solid mass of people standing ⁵ staring at one particular house or shopand it took little perspicuity ⁶ to guess which that was. What we saw was a mass of average humanbeings looking with intense interest at the spot where another human being had been done todeath.,Poirot stopped a little distance from the main body of the crowd. From where we stood thelegend painted over the door could be read plainly enough. Poirot repeated it under his breath.,“A. Ascher. Oui, c’est peut-être là—
”,He broke off.,“Come, let us go inside, Hastings.”,I was only too ready.,She is awkwardly situated.她的处境困难。,We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了 。