ABC谋杀案 20

Nineteen,BY WAY OF SWEDEN,Poirot returned to his seat and sat humming a little tune to himself.,“Unfortunate that she is so intelligent,” he murmured.,“Who? ”,“Megan Barnard. Mademoiselle Megan. ‘Words,’ she snaps out. At once she perceives thatwhat I am saying means nothing at all. Everybody else was taken.
”,“Plausible, yes. It was just that she perceived.”,“Didn’t you mean what you said, then? ”,“What I said could have been comprised into one short sentence. Instead I repeated myself adlib without anyone but Mademoiselle Megan being aware of the fact.
”,“But why?”,“Eh bien—to get things going! To imbue everyone with the impression that there was work tobe done! To start—shall we say—the conversations! ”,