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"They are beautiful and animated and they live deeply, wildly, constantly on some far out edge of emotional tension. They are incomparably feminine. They need and seek all the symbols of male strength, despising weak men. When they have decided exactly what they want, they go after it with a ruthlessness that would confound any pirate. No one can predict their next mood, especially themselves."

The minds of children move strangely. Delicate, small things which quite escape the attention of their elders, to them are all in all. A tree in the dark of night may seem to them ominous as the villain of the play; a smile may shock them through and through with happiness; and a frown may lock up a lasting sorrow in their hearts.

"It didn't mean anything, probably. Why should it? But yet—"I know too much," said Poirot angrily to himself. "I know too much. I know a little about everything and everyone, but I cannot get my pattern.
Half these facts are irrelevant. I want a pattern. A pat-tern. My kingdom for a pattern," he said aloud."