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True."
I should put it this way. The doors were bolted--our own eyes have told us
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that--yet the presence of the candle grease on the floor, and the destruction
of the will, prove that during the night some one entered the room. You
agree so far?"
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Perfectly. Put with admirable clearness. Proceed."
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Well," I said, encouraged, "as the person who entered did not do so by the
window, nor by miraculous means, it follows that the door must have been
opened from inside by Mrs. Inglethorp herself. That strengthens the
conviction that the person in question was her husband. She would
naturally open the door to her own husband."
Poirot shook his head.
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Why should she? She had bolted the door leading into his room--a most
unusual proceeding on her part--she had had a most violent quarrel with
him that very afternoon. No, he was the last person she would admit."
"But you agree with me that the door must have been opened by Mrs.
Inglethorp herself?"
"There is another possibility. She may have forgotten to bolt the door into
the passage when she went to bed, and have got up later, towards morning,
and bolted it then."
"Poirot, is that seriously your opinion?"
"No, I do not say it is so, but it might be. Now, to turn to another feature,
what do you make of the scrap of conversation you overheard between Mrs.
Cavendish and her mother-in-law?"
"I had forgotten that," I said thoughtfully. "That is as enigmatical as ever. It
seems incredible that a woman like Mrs. Cavendish, proud and reticent to
the last degree, should interfere so violently in what was certainly not her
affair."
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Precisely. It was an astonishing thing for a woman of her breeding to do."
It is certainly curious," I agreed. "Still, it is unimportant, and need not be
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