:21:12
You opening a dress shop?
:21:24
No.
:21:26
We are closing an inquiry.
Where is Shimoga?
:21:29
- I beg your pardon?
- Shimoga, where is it?
:21:31
Well, it's a bit off my track.
I'm a Northwest Frontier man myself.
:21:34
But Shimoga's down south,
in Mysore. Why?
:21:37
Does it possess a mission?
:21:39
How the hell should I know?
India's pustular with missions.
:21:42
You are returning on leave
from India to England?
:21:44
Better than the hotel?
:21:45
- Yes.
- Why overland?
:21:45
I shall probably keep
the menu as a souvenir.
:21:47
Why not?
:21:49
Because the sea route
by P and O is more usual.
:21:50
Hector, I ordered three Islamic
13th-century, perforated pottery bowls
:21:53
I chose to come overland
for reasons of my own.
:21:54
and six beakers.
:21:55
Colonel Arbuthnott,
in a murder inquiry,
:21:56
They delivered only five beakers,
and one of the bowls arrived chipped,
:21:57
no suspect's reasons
are exclusively his own.
:22:00
which it was not when I paid for it.
:22:02
Through the nose.
:22:02
I stopped for one night
to see Ur of the Chaldees,
:22:03
- Send a telegram from Belgrade.
- Yes. Yes, Mr. Ratchett.
:22:05
and for three days in Baghdad
with the A.O.C.,
:22:07
What's the matter? You look tired.
:22:08
who happens to be
a friend of mine.
:22:10
- I slept badly.
- Yeah, why?
:22:10
The English Miss Debenham
also has traveled from Baghdad.
:22:14
The Belgian in the upper berth snored.
:22:15
It is possible the murder
was committed by a woman
:22:18
Really? Any other
unanswered letters on file?
:22:18
or by a man and a woman
in collaboration.
:22:22
Only the anonymous ones.
:22:23
From your acquaintanceship
with Miss Debenham,
:22:25
We can't answer those, can we?
:22:26
would you have thought
that she was
:22:28
You'd better go catch up
on your sleep...
:22:29
capable physically or emotionally or...?
:22:30
...before the Belgian gentleman
gets back to your compartment.
:22:31
- That's a bloody irregular question.
- I know, but I ask it.
:22:35
Miss Debenham is not a woman.
:22:35
Go on.
:22:40
- She's a lady.
- Which precludes her
:22:42
from being a murderess?
:22:43
Damn it,
the man was a perfect stranger.
:22:45
- She'd never seen him before.
- You feel warmly in the matter.
:22:54
I don't know what you're driving at.
:22:55
Then let us be practical
and drive at facts.
:22:57
Did you know Colonel Armstrong?