射 paed, then said with a little sile: &ot;you did your best for , you know that night at assuan - you told not to open y heart to evil did you realize then what was y d?&ot;

he shook his head

&ot;i only knew that what i said was true&ot;

&ot;it was true i uld have sped, then, you know i nearly did i uld have told sion that i wouldnt go on with it but then perhaps -&ot;

射 broke off 射 said: &ot;would you like to hear about it? fro the begng?&ot;

&ot;if you care to tell , adeoiselle&ot;

&ot;i thk i want to tell you it was all very siple really you see, sion and i loved each other&ot;

it was a atter-of-fact statent, yet, underneath the lightness of her tone, there were echoes

poirot said siply, &ot;and for you love would have been enough, but not for hi&ot;

&ot;you ight put it that way, perhaps but you dont ite understand sion you see, hes always wanted oney dreadfully he likes all the thgs you t with oney - horses and yachts and sport - nice thgs, all of the, thgs a an ought to be keen about and hed never been able to have any of the hes awfully siple, sion is he wants thgs jt as a child wants the - you know - terribly

&ot;all the sa he never tried to arry anybody rich and horrid he wasnt that rt and then we t - and - and that rt of settled thgs only we didnt see when wed be able to arry hed had rather a decent job, but hed lost it a way it was his own fault he tried to do thg sart over oney, and got f