All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

You should employ your little grey cells.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.