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Chapter 4,Sarah King looked long and searchingly at Hercule Poirot. She noted ¹ the egg-shaped head, thegigantic moustaches, the dandified appearance and the suspicious blackness of his hair. A look ofdoubt crept into her eyes. ‘Well, mademoiselle, are you satisfied?’,Sarah flushed as she met the amused ironical ² glance of his eyes.,‘I beg your pardon,’ she said awkwardly.,‘Du tout ³! To use an expression I have recently learnt, you give me the once-over, is it not so?’,Sarah smiled a little. ‘Well, at any rate, you can do the same to me,’ she said.,She glanced at him sharply. Something in his tone. But Poirot was twirling his moustachescomplacently, and Sarah thought (for the second time), ‘The man’s a mountebank ⁴!’,Her self-confidence restored, she sat up a little straighter and said inquiringly: ‘I don’t think Iquite understand the object of this interview?’,‘The good Dr Gerard did not explain?’,Sarah said frowning: ‘I don’t understand Dr Gerard. He seems to think—’,‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,’ quoted Poirot. ‘You see, I know yourShakespeare.’,Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。,That is a summary and ironical end.那是一个具有概括性和讽刺意味的结局 。