WE LUNCHED WITH AN excellent appetite. For a while we ate in silence, and then Poirot observed maliciously:
“Eh bien! And your indiscretions! You recount them not?”
I felt myself blushing.
“Oh, you mean this morning?”
I endeavoured to adopt a tone of absolute nonchalance. But I was no match for Poirot. In a very few minutes he had extracted the whole story from me, his eyes twinkling as he did so.
“Tiens! A story of the most romantic. What is her name, this charming young lady? I had to confess that I did not know.”
“Still more romantic! The first rencontre in the train from Paris, the second here. Journeys end in lovers meetings, is not that the saying?”
“Don’t be an ass, Poirot. Yesterday it was Mademoiselle Daubreuil, today it is Mademoiselle; Cinderella! Decidedly you have the h
