Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
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What exactly did you do when you left her?" "I took the chair I had brought out back into my cave,then I went down tothe marquee.My husband was there." Poirot watched her closely as he said: "Did you tell him of your decision?Or had you already told him?" There was a pause,an infinitesimal pause before Nadine said: "I told himthen." "How did he take it?" She answered quietly: "He was very upset." "Did he urge you to reconsider your decision?" she shook her head.
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"He -he didn't say very much.You see,we had both known for some time thatsomething like this might happen." Poirot said: "You will pardon me,but -the other man was,of course,MrJefferson Cope?" She bent her head."Yes." There was a long pause,then,without any change of voice,Poirot asked: "doyou own a hypodermic syringe,madame?" "Yes-no." His eyebrows rose. She explained: "I have an old hypodermic amongst other things in atravelling medicine chest,but it is in our big luggage which we left inJerusalem."