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very nose!"
"True," said Poirot, rather crestfallen. "It was not one of my most striking triumphs."
This way of describing events almost caused me to smile, but I stuck to my guns.
"So, having--pardon the expression--rather made a mess of things, don't you think it would be more graceful to leave immediately?"
"Oh, what's dinner!" I said impatiently.
Poirot held up his hands in horror.
"There's another reason why we should get back to London as soon as possible," I continued.
"What is that, my friend?"
"The other diamond," I said, lowering my voice. "Miss Marvell's."
"Don't you see?" His unusual obtuseness annoyed me. What had happened to his usually keen wits? "They've got one, now they'll go for the other."
I shook my head dubiously. The full of the moon theory left me entirely cold. I had my way with Poirot, however, and we departed immediately, leaving behind us a note of explanation and apology for Lord Yardly.
In the morning Poirot seemed strangely disinclined to stir out. I began to suspect that, having made a mistake to start with, he was singularly loath to proceed with the case. In answer to my persuasions, he pointed out, with admirable common sense, that as the details of the affair at Yardly Chase were already in the morning papers the Rolfs would know quite as much as we could tell them. I gave way unwillingly.
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