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START: HASTINGS: (bursting with excitement) Poison!
POIROT: Eh?
HASTINGS: (with even greater enjoyment, nodding his head) Poison!
POIROT: How dramatic is my friend Hastings! How brilliantly he leaps to conclusions!
HASTINGS: Now then Poirot, you can’t put me off that way. You’re not going to pretend you think the old beggar died of heart disease. It leaps to the eye.I must say Richard Amory can’t be a very bright sort of lad. That possibility doesn’t seem to have occurred to him.
[... …]
END: POIROT: The person who hid it parbleu!
HASTINGS: (taking a step forward) You mean…
POIROT: That sooner or later, the thief will try to recapture his booty. That one or other of us must remain on guard…
Agatha Christie. Black Coffee. Samuel French Ltd, 1961. Pp.50-53
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