Revealing+Quotes


 * 1) "The hall it is black, but the sun go off again and the falshlight it falls-- and it swings round as it falls-- and see her. I see her there close to him, with the gun in her hand. I see Miss Blacklock"- Mitzi (203).
 * 2) "'He isn't Pip.' The voice came from the shadows in the corner. Phillipa Haymes came forward, her face pale. 'I'm Pip, inspector'"- Phillipa (Pip) (203).
 * 3) "It had been left until very late-- but, as we know, the operation was successful. The deformity was gone-- and the scar this operation had left was easily hidden by a choker of pearls or beads"- Miss Marple (212).
 * 4) "Letitia was buried under Charlotte's name. 'Charlotte' was dead, 'Letitia' came to England"- Miss Marple (213).
 * 5) "But Dora very soon became a real danger. Though Charlotte and Letitia had called each other by their full names, Dora was the kind of person who always uses abbreviations. To her the sisters had always been Letty and Lotty. And though she schooled her tongue resolutely to call her friend Letty-- the old name often slipped out"- Miss Marple (214-15).
 * 6) "She'd previously frayed the cord of the lamp so that the wires were nearly bare. The whole thing only took a second. The cigarette box, the vase and the little switch were all close together. She picked up the violets, spilt the water on the frayed place and switched on the lamp. Water's a good conductor of electricity. The wires burned out"- Miss Marple (217).
 * 7) "She did her best to shield Phillipa's identity. She was quick-witted enough to tell you, when you asked her, that Sonia was small and dark and she took the old snapshots out of the album so that you shouldn't notice any resemblance at the same time that she removed snapshots of Letitia herself"- Miss Marple (219).
 * 8) "Mitzi went straight out of the room and back to the kitchen--just like I had told her...Miss Blacklock came out after her almost immediately. Mitzi was apparently alone in the kitchen Sergeant Fletcher was behind the scullery door. And I was in the broom cupboard in the kitchen"- Miss Marple (226).