【勝手に引用】
‘There's something about this country that makes me feel - wicked. It brings to the surface all the things that are boiling inside one. Everything's so unfair - so unjust.’
‘I wonder. You cannnot judge by material evidence.’
Rosalie muttered:‘Look at - at some people's mothers - and look at mine. There is no God but Sex, and Salome Otterbourne is its Prophet.’She stopped.‘I shouldn't have said that, I suppose.’
Poiro made a gesture with his hands.
‘Why not say it - to me? I am one of those who hear many things. If, as you say, you boil inside - like the jam - *eh bien*, let the scum come to the surface, and then one can take it off with a spoon, so.’
He made a gesture of dropping something into the Nile.
‘Then, it has gone.’
‘What an extraordinary man you are!’ Rosalie said. Her sulky mouth twisted into a smile. (p.73, Death on the Nile)

なんか昨日読んでて慰められた。