Agatha Christie - Detectives and Young Adventurers - The Complete Short Stories

Tommy strained his ears. Nothing. What could they be doing?

Suddenly a hand fell on his shoulder.

‘Come on,’ said Tuppence’s voice out of the darkness.

‘Tuppence! How did you get here?’

‘Through the front door. Let’s get out of this.’

‘Get out of this?’

‘That’s what I said.’

‘But – Mrs Leigh Gordon?’

In a tone of indescribable bitterness Tuppence replied:

‘Getting thin!’

Tommy looked at her, suspecting irony.

‘What do you mean?’

‘What I say. Getting thin. Slinkiness. Reduction of weight. Didn’t you hear Stavansson say he hated fat women? In the two years he’s been away, his Hermy has put on weight. Got a panic when she knew he was coming back and rushed off to do this new treatment of Dr Horriston’s. It’s injections of some sort, and he makes a deadly secret of it, and charges through the nose. I dare say he is a quack – but he’s a damned successful one! Stavansson comes home a fortnight too soon, when she’s only beginning the treatment. Lady Susan has been sworn to secrecy and plays up. And we come down here and make blithering idiots of ourselves!’

Tommy drew a deep breath.

‘I believe, Watson,’ he said with dignity, ‘that there is a very good concert at the Queen’s Hall tomorrow. We shall be in plenty of time for it. And you will oblige me by not placing this case upon your records. It has absolutely no distinctive features.’

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