![]() ![]() You can't kill anybody with an oilsilk curtain. It went with the scarlet tiles.'īlore said heavily: 'Well - after all-what of it? It's mad - but so's everything else. Justice Wargrave asked: 'Was it there this morning?'īlore said: 'What kind of a curtain was it?' I was going round drawing all the curtains and the one in the lav - bathroom wasn't there any longer.' 'The bathroom curtain? What the devil do you mean, Rogers?' He said nervously and at random: 'Excuse me, sir, but does any one know what's become of the bathroom curtain?' Into this relaxed atmosphere came Rogers. Justice Wargrave, who ordinarily hated tea, sipped approvingly. Tea! Blessed ordinary everyday afternoon tea! Philip Lombard made a cheery remark. There was a cheerful rattle and clink of china. So annoying.' Vera moved to the tea-table. And I have lost two skeins of my grey knitting-wool. “Will you pour out tea, Miss Brent?' The elder woman replied: 'No, you do it, dear. ― Agatha Christie, quote from And Then There Were None And that's why I'm asking-do they keep bees on this island- isn't it damned funny.?” ![]() And the next verse, I know the whole thing by heart, I tell you! Six little soldier boys playing with a hive. Seven little soldiers chopping up sticks. Bees, hives, bees! Oh, don't you understand? Haven't you read that idiotic rhyme? It's up in all of your bedrooms-put it there for you to study! We might have come here straightaway if we'd had sense. "Don't stare like that! As though you thought I was mad. She went on in that high unnatural voice: It was as though the sane well-balanced girl had gone mad right before their eyes. "Do they keep bees on this island? Tell me that. She cried out in a high shrill voice, shaken with wild bursts of laughter: Vera Claythorne was standing in the yard. “A sound of laughter was heard-they turned sharply. ![]()
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