You know, Poirot, I sometimes wonder if you don't set me these little tasks just to find out how much embarrassment I can take in any one day.
The facts, Hastings. This is of critical importance.
Charlotte and Mathew Davenheim have occupied separate bedrooms since the spring.
Ah. And it is now the middle of October. Bon. And the bathroom cabinet?
You sure want to hear all this?
Hastings, do you think I play the games?
Two toothbrushes, one hairbrush, one pot of skin cream, one bottle of liver pills, one tube of toothpaste, one shaving brush, one packet of razor blades, one bottle of sleeping pills, one nasal spray, one bottle of eye drops...
Thank you, Hastings. I have heard enough.
There's another two pages.
The evidence, it is complete. Now, Hastings, Miss Lemon, I trust you have no monies deposited in the bank of Davenheim and Selmon?
None.
No? Nor me. Why?
Because I should advise you to withdraw it all, mon ami, before it is too late.
You think there's trouble looming?
I expect a big crash within the next few days, Miss Lemon. Perhaps sooner, hein? So, if you please, a note to the Chief Inspector Japp. Advise you to withdraw any monies deposited with the firm in question. Ah, still he will not comprehend.
I'm not sure I comprehend.
Hastings, as I told you at the start, once all the facts were placed before me, the solution, it becomes inevitable.
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