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Chapter 2,The Frenchman came in with a quick yet unhurried tread. As he shook hands with ColonelCarbury he shot a keen, interested glance at Poirot. Carbury said:,‘This is M. Hercule Poirot. Staying with me. Been talking to him about this business down atPetra.’,‘Ah, yes?’ Gerard’s quick eyes looked Poirot up and down. ‘You are interested?’,Hercule Poirot threw up his hands.,‘Alas! one is always incurably ² interested in one’s own subject.’,‘Have a drink?’ said Carbury.,He poured out a whisky and soda ³ and placed it by Gerard’s elbow. He held up the decanterinquiringly, but Poirot shook his head. Colonel Carbury set it down again and drew his chair alittle nearer.,‘Well,’ he said, ‘where are we?’,‘I gather,’ said Poirot to Gerard, ‘that Colonel Carbury is not satisfied.’,Gerard made an expressive ⁴ gesture.,That bout of pneumonia enfeebled her.那次肺炎的发作使她虚弱了。,But young people are incurably optimistic and women have a special knack of forgetting their troubles. 可是青年人，永远朝着愉快的事情想 ，女人们尤其容易忘记那些不痛快 。