Arsenic For Tea Quotes
"Something dreadful has happened to Mr Curtis. I am quite surprised to realize that I mind."
"Crimes are not real things to be upset about. She is only interested in the fact that something has happened, and she wants to understand what it means."
"The fact is, Daisy and I will both need to think like detectives again."
"I like thinking about things before I act, while Daisy always has to go rushing head over heels into things like a dog after a rabbit."
"Daisy is whippet-thin and tall, with glorious golden hair. But all the same, we are best friends, and an excellent crime-detecting partnership."
"I wouldn’t be a proper member of the Detective Society if I didn’t – but no matter how hard I try, I can’t only think like a detective."
"Spring term at our school, Deepdean, had been quite safe and ordinary."
"Honestly, Fallingford is just like a house in a book."
"Everything is treated so carelessly, and is so old and battered, that it took me a while to realize how valuable all these things really are."
"Daisy’s mother leaves her jewels about on her dressing table, the dogs are dried off after muddy walks with towels that were a wedding present to Daisy’s grandmother from the King."
"I am so used to being at Deepdean now – and everyone there is so used to me – that I can sometimes forget that I’m different."
"I don’t want to discover it too late. Mr Curtis can’t do anything if we keep our eyes on him."
"I hate it when parents argue. It seems like such a waste."
"There’s arsenic in the hall cupboard. A big tub of it. Bring it out, Mrs D, and dispatch the rodents immediately."
"It’s clear from what he said at dinner that Mr Curtis is highly suspicious."
"Daisy gets very protective about the things that are hers."
"Everything had suddenly become very tense."
"I could feel the misery coming off Lord Hastings as he led Aunt Saskia into the library."
"I didn’t want to discover it too late. Mr Curtis can’t do anything if we keep our eyes on him."
"We can’t let him just wander about without being watched!"
"Out of my way, young ladies, out of my way!"
"Daisy, this isn’t a game. This is serious."
"I didn’t want to do that at all – but I did want to find out what was going on."
"It is serious, Mr. Mountfitchet. Very serious indeed."
"We have just been given the most important clue."
"Girls, I’m afraid I have some bad news. Mr. Curtis has died."
"You two are up to something. It’s something to do with Mr. Curtis, isn’t it?"
"Remember Mr. Curtis saying that the tea tasted foul?"
"If we went hunting them, would we be safe?"
"We’re going to speak to the only other people who have any idea what goes on in this house."
"These aren’t possessions, they’re props."
"Sometimes detectives have to face terrible danger."
"Sometimes, Daisy, you need to learn to leave well alone."
"What are you doing here? Didn’t I tell you to go and play?"
"Do you want the murderer to creep up on us unawares?"
"I hate Mummy. I know I oughtn’t to, but I hate her."
"I couldn’t before, but now I really can imagine her killing a person for a beautiful thing she wanted."
"Being a detective meant that you had to face some truly dreadful crimes."
"If we don’t help him, he’ll end up being arrested and thrown in jail."
"He’s already got Chapman covering for him because of something that happened at tea yesterday, and now this."
"We must be very close indeed to solving the crime now – but all the same, I’m still not sure that this is a case that the Detective Society ought to solve."
"What happened to the teacup proves to me that he didn’t do it, but it won’t prove anything to anyone official."
"We’ve got a poor man’s body simply mouldering away upstairs, and we’ve been sent no support."
"Daisy, if I was to bump off all Mummy’s idiotic boyfriends, I’d be a murderer ten times over by now."
"We might be brought back – within easy reach of the murderer."
"We don't need five minutes. We've got a piece of evidence from Mr Curtis himself – a notebook that shows that he tricked Stephen's parents and stole all their nice things and his father's watch. That's why Mr Bampton killed himself, and that's why Stephen killed Mr Curtis, to get his revenge."
"I kept on thinking of him as my friend, and then remembering with a jolt that he was not my friend at all. It made me sick, and angry, as though I had been tricked."
"It seemed quite funny to me at the time. Of course, I see in retrospect that it might not have been quite... well – quite the thing to do."
"You wanted to murder me! And after I invited you into my home!"
"I am sorry. I'm sorry about Lady Hastings. I didn't mean to hurt her. And I would never have hurt anyone else."
"But another murder, Hazel! How do you find these things? It's that friend of yours, Daisy. I don't like her."
"You mayn't say anything. Not anything about the Detective Society or its part in this. Deadly secret, remember?"