4:50 From Paddington Quotes
"The train was, therefore, an uneven one, and the porter turned the corner at the end of the platform whilst Mrs. McGillicuddy was still coming up the straight."
The train standing at Platform 3," the Voice told her, "is the 4:50 for Brackhampton, Milchester, Waverton, Carvil Junction, Roxeter and stations to Chadmouth.
"The magazine slipped from Mrs. McGillicuddy’s hand, her head dropped sideways, three minutes later she was asleep."
"Mrs. McGillicuddy looked up at the rack where her various parcels reposed, with a pleased expression."
"Standing with his back to the window and to her was a man. His hands were round the throat of a woman who faced him, and he was slowly, remorselessly, strangling her."
"Mrs. McGillicuddy turned to him with vehemence. 'A woman has been strangled,' she said."
"Miss Marple merely raised her eyebrows and shook her head, as she said: 'Most distressing for you, Elspeth, and surely most unusual.'"
"I recollect myself being interested when a train ran parallel to one on which I was travelling, to notice what a vivid and intimate picture one got of what was going on in one or two of the carriages."
"The best thing, I think, my dear, is for you to go upstairs and take off your hat and have a wash."
"I think we might walk down to the police station and talk to Sergeant Cornish."
"That’s a very extraordinary story," His eyes, without seeming to do so, had sized Mrs. McGillicuddy up whilst she was telling it."
"The only other course open to the murderer would be to push the body out of the train on to the line."
"Miss Marple spoke with decision. 'The body, if there is a body, ought to have been discovered by now, or will be very soon.'"
"The garden is not looking at all as it should," said Miss Marple, but still speaking absentmindedly."
"Lucy Eyelesbarrow was thirty-two. She had taken a First in Mathematics at Oxford, was acknowledged to have a brilliant mind and was confidently expected to take up a distinguished academic career."
"Lucy Eyelesbarrow did everything, saw to everything, arranged everything. She was unbelievably competent in every conceivable sphere."
"Lucy Eyelesbarrow entered the field of domestic labour. Her success was immediate and assured."
"Lucy Eyelesbarrow drove through an imposing pair of vast iron gates. Just inside them was what had originally been a small lodge which now seemed completely derelict."
"Lucy Eyelesbarrow took a light iron out of the set of golf clubs she had had the forethought to bring with her, and strolled out into the park, climbing over the fence."
"After tea, Lucy rose. 'You were quite right,' she said. 'I’ve found it.'"
"Lucy set to work systematically the next afternoon."
"Lucy, rather pale, left the barn, locked the door and put the key back on the nail."
"Lucy gave him a precise recital of the events which had led up to her sensational discovery."
"The inspector summed it up in an outraged voice. 'You were engaged by an elderly lady to obtain a post here and to search the house and grounds for a dead body? Is that right?'"
"The inquest will be purely formal, I suppose?"
"Harold Crackenthorpe, he’s something in the City—quite an important figure, I understand."
"No reason, is there, to believe the Crackenthorpe family are connected with the crime in any way?"
"What beats me is this extraordinary rigmarole about the train."
"Well, it’s all a very remarkable story. Marple, Miss Jane Marple—the name seems familiar somehow…"
"Granted a strange young woman has got herself killed in the barn at Rutherford Hall (sounds like a Victorian melodrama)."
"Murder takes a little more getting used to by some people than it may in your case," said Harold acidly.
"My point is that though murder may be an everyday commonplace to you, living amongst hot-blooded Latin people, nevertheless in England we take such things seriously."
"I was sure it would. Lucy Eyelesbarrow is a most efficient and intelligent person."
"The whole thing, as Harold says, has been most unfortunate."
"You want to take care of your future. You wait…" His fingers pressed into Lucy’s arm.
"I simply can’t make you out," said Cedric Crackenthorpe.
"Psychology’s all right if it’s left to the psychologists. Trouble is, everyone is an amateur psychologist nowadays."
"At a certain stage one is inclined to think everyone knows a little more than they are willing to tell you."
"It’s happened before. One blasted fungus slips in and does it. Nobody can tell. I know you’re a good girl. You wouldn’t do it on purpose." - Mr. Crackenthorpe
"If Miss Eyelesbarrow is feeding the family arsenic in their curry, she’s doing it for a reason. Moreover, being a highly intelligent young woman, she’d be careful not to be the only one unaffected." - Dr. Quimper
"Miss Eyelesbarrow is as sane as you or I are. If Miss Eyelesbarrow is feeding the family arsenic in their curry, she’s doing it for a reason." - Dr. Quimper
"I’ll outlive them all. You see if I don’t, my girl. You see if I don’t." - Mr. Crackenthorpe
"These zealous young doctors! Always getting ideas in their heads." - Dr. Morris
"All right, all right, you’re saying that I could have made a mistake. Well, I don’t think I did." - Dr. Morris
"I think, really, you know, it would be a good thing if he married again… Somebody decent… I shouldn’t, myself, mind at all having a stepmother…not, I mean, if she was a decent sort…" - Alexander
"I thought, really, you know, it would be a good thing if he married again… Somebody decent… I shouldn’t, myself, mind at all having a stepmother…not, I mean, if she was a decent sort…" - Alexander
"I don’t want it to be you, I like you very much and so does Stodders. We think you’re out of this world as a cook. Absolutely lovely grub. You’re very sensible, too." - Alexander
"He’s a jolly good doctor, I will say." - Lucy Eyelesbarrow
"You’ll have to go to one of these new-fashioned psychiatrists to find that out."
"It is the root, too, of his parsimony, I think."
"Cedric’s an eccentric type, one of those natural rebels."
"She’s more character than you might think from her general appearance."
"They’ll only have to pay the most stupendous taxes on the income from it."
"It’s been a good journey back, the Channel a little rough."
"Nobody could have made more of a muck of it than I seem to have done."
"Somebody perhaps is greedy and wants the whole of Josiah Crackenthorpe’s fortune."
"It’s not often, I believe, that anyone actually sees a murder committed."
"I remember poor Louisa Felby came to see me once and she had to ask to go upstairs five times during one little half hour."
"I dare say if her father were to die—and I don’t think he’s quite so robust as he thinks he is—that she’d go on a cruise or perhaps to stay abroad like Geraldine Webb, and I dare say something might come of it."