all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

Things never come when they are expected.