"Poirot," I said, "I could kill you. Why did you deceive欺骗 me?" We were sitting in the library a few days later. John and Mary were together in the next room, and Alfred Inglethorpe and Miss Howard had been arrested. Now, at last, I was alone with Poirot, and could ask him all my questions. "I did not deceive欺骗 you, mon ami," he said, "though perhaps I let you deceive欺骗 yourself."
"Yes, but why? Because you, my dear Hastings, are so honest." "If I had told you that I suspected Alfred Inglethorpe, you would not have been able to hide your feelings, and he would have known I suspected him."
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