Chapter 11: Poirot Pays a Call

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​​⁠I was slightly nervous when I rang the bell at Marby Grange the following afternoon. I wondered very much what Poirot expected to find out. He had entrusted the job to me. Why? Was it because, as in the case of questioning Major Blunt, he wished to remain in the background? The wish, intelligible in the first case, seemed to me quite meaningless here.

My meditations were interrupted by the advent o