Hercule Poirot:
You come from Baghdad?
Miss Mary Debenham:
It's true. No detail escapes his notice!
Hercule Poirot:
[points in her purse]
Your ticket.
[Debenham politely closes her purse]
Hercule Poirot:
I might also ask you if you enjoyed your time there - as a governess? The chalk on your sleeve and the Geography Primer. A governess or a cartographer.
[Debenham chuckles]
Hercule Poirot:
I made my gamble.
Miss Mary Debenham:
I always begin them with geography and monster them until the have the world down cold. They may get lost in math; but, I'll be damned if they don't know where they are.
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