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THE BLUE GERANIUM
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Seven
THE BLUE GERANIUM
“ W hen I was down here last year—” said Sir Henry Clithering, and stopped.
His hostess, Mrs. Bantry, looked at him curiously1.
The Ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard was staying with old friends of his, Colonel and Mrs. Bantry, who livednear St. Mary Mead2.
Mrs. Bantry, pen in hand, had just asked his advice as to who should be invited to make a sixth guest at dinner thatevening.
“Yes?” said Mrs. Bantry encouragingly. “When you were here last year?”
“Tell me,” said Sir Henry, “do you know a Miss Marple?”
Mrs. Bantry was surprised. It was the last thing she had expected.
“Know Miss Marple? Who doesn’t! The typical old maid of fiction. Quite a dear, but hopelessly behind the times.
Do you mean you would like me to ask her to dinner?”
“You are surprised?”
“A little, I must confess. I should hardly have thought you—but perhaps there’s an explanation?”
“The explanation is simple enough. When I was down here last year we got into the habit of discussing unsolvedmysteries—there were five or six of us—Raymond West, the novelist, started it. We each supplied a story to which weknew the answer, but nobody else did. It was supposed to be an exercise in the deductive faculties—to see who couldget nearest the truth.”
“Well?”
“Like in the old story—we hardly realized that Miss Marple was playing; but we were very polite about it—didn’twant to hurt the old dear’s feelings. And now comes the cream of the jest. The old lady outdid us every time!”
“What?”
“I assure you—straight to the truth like a homing pigeon.”
“But how extraordinary! Why, dear old Miss Marple has hardly ever been out of St. Mary Mead.”
“Ah! But according to her, that has given her unlimited3 opportunities of observing human nature—under themicroscope as it were.”
“I suppose there’s something in that,” conceded Mrs. Bantry. “One would at least know the petty side of people.
But I don’t think we have any really exciting criminals in our midst. I think we must try her with Arthur’s ghost storyafter dinner. I’d be thankful if she’d find a solution to that.”
“I didn’t know that Arthur believed in ghosts?”
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grievance
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brutal
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awfully
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plaintively
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joyfully
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adv. 喜悦地, 高兴地 | |
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glamour
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chisel
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killer
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exhumation
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autopsy
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