Agatha Christie - Elephants Can Remember by Can Remember (Uc) (Pg) (1972) E

Author:Can Remember (Uc) (Pg) (1972) E [E, Can Remember]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

agatha christie

be redressed and wore the second one. I never heard of anyone who had four wigs.”

Mrs. Oliver extracted a small notebook from her bag, ruffled the pages of it, searching for extracts.

“Mrs. Carstairs, she’s seventy-seven and rather gaga. Quote from her: ‘I do remember the Ravenscrofts quite well. Yes, yes, a very nice couple. It’s very sad, I think. Yes. Cancer it was!’ I asked then which of them had cancer,” said Mrs.

Oliver, “but Mrs. Carstairs had rather forgotten about that.

She said she thought the wife came to London and consulted a doctor and had an operation and then came home and was very miserable, and her husband was very upset about her. So of course he shot her and himself.”

“Was that her theory or did she have any exact knowledge?”

“I think it was entirely theory. As far as I can see and hear in the course of my investigations,” said Mrs. Oliver, making rather a point of this last word, “when anybody has heard that any of their friends whom they don’t happen to know very well have sudden illnesses or consult doctors, they always think it’s cancer. And so do the people themselves, I think. Somebody else—I can’t read her name here, I’ve forgotten, I think it began with T—she said that it was the husband who had cancer. He was very unhappy, and so was his wife. And they talked it over together and they couldn’t bear the thought of it all, so they decided to commit suicide.”

“Sad and romantic,” said Poirot.

“Yes, and I don’t think really true,” said Mrs. Oliver. “It is worrying, isn’t it? I mean, the people remembering so much and that they really mostly seem to have made it up themselves.”

“They have made up the solution of something they knew about,” said Poirot. “That is to say, they know that somebody comes to London, say, to consult a doctor,*or that somebody has been in hospital for two or three months. That is a fact that they know.”

“Yes,” said Mrs. Oliver, “and then when they come to talk 98

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