Just two incidents.
"You're a downy fellow, ain't you?" said Miss Peabody, stopping us as we emerged from the gate of Littlegreen House one day. "Managed to hush everything up! No exhumation. Everything done decently."
"There seems to be no doubt that Miss Arundell died of yellow atrophy of the liver," said Poirot gently.
"That's very satisfactory," said Miss Peabody. "Bella Tanios took an overdose of sleeping stuff, I hear."
"Yes, it was very sad."
"She was a miserable kind of woman – always wanting what she hadn't got. People go a bit queer sometimes when they're like that. Had a kitchen maid once. Same thing. Plain girl. Felt it. Started writing anonymous letters. Queer kinks people get. Ah, well, I dare say it's all for the best."
"One hopes so, madame. One hopes so."
"Well," said Miss Peabody, preparing to resume her walk, "I'll say this for you. You've hushed things up nicely. Very nicely indeed."
She walked on.
There was a plaintive "Wuff" behind me.
I turned and opened the gate.
"Come on, old man."
Bob bounced through. There was a ball in his mouth.
"You can't take that for a walk."
Bob sighed, turned and slowly ejected the ball inside the gate. He looked at it anxiously, then passed through.
He looked up at me.
"If you say so, master, I suppose it's all right."
I drew a long breath.
"My word, Poirot, it's good to have a dog again."
"The spoils of war," said Poirot. "But I would remind you, my friend, that it was to me that Miss Lawson presented Bob, not to you."
"Possibly," I said. "But you're not really any good with a dog, Poirot. You don't understand dog psychology! Now Bob and I understand each other perfectly, don't we?"
"Woof," said Bob in energetic assent.
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