What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.
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Zum Autor"You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people."
"I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste."
"There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash."
"Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind."
"I like a good detective story,' he said. 'But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day."
"Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the relations of the sexes. If a man poisons his wife in order to travel to the North Pole or to enjoy the peace of a bachelor existence—it would not interest his fellow-villagers for a minute!"