The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Hercule Poirot 21) - Page 149

people in books, but I don't know many people

who do it in reality--and certainly no one under

sixty. You said this woman was forty. Those

dropped g's sounded to me like a woman who was

playing a part and overdoing it."

I shan't tell you what Mr. Petherick said to that

--but he was very complimentary--and I really

couldn't help feeling just a teeny weeny bit pleased

with myself.

And it's extraordinary how things turn out for

the best in this world. Mr. Rhodes has married

again--such a nice, sensible girl--and they've got

a dear little baby andmwhat do you think?tthey

asked me to be godmother. Wasn't it nice of

them?

Now I do hope you don't think I've been run-ning

on too long ....

Hercule Poirot gave the house a steady appraising

glance. His eyes wandered a moment to its sur-roundings,

the shops, the big factory building on

the right, the blocks of cheap mansion flats op-posite.

Then once more his eyes returned to Northway

House, relic of an earlier age--an age of space and

leisure, when green fields had surrounded its well-bred

arrogance. Now it was an anachronism, sub-merged

and forgotten in the hectic sea of modern

London, and not one man in fifty could have told

you where it stood.

Furthermore, very few people could have told

you to whom it belonged, though its owner's name

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