“ Mon ami ,” said Tommy. “You do not understand the psychology of an American woman who has just returned from Paris. There were, I should say, about nineteen trunks in the room.”
“What I meantersay is, a trunk’s a handy thing if you’ve got a dead body about you want to get rid of—not that she is dead, for a minute.”
“We searched the only two that were big enough to contain a body. What is the next fact in chronological order?”
“You’ve missed one out—when the Missus and the bloke dressed up as a Hospital Nurse passed the waiter in the passage.”
“It must have been just before we came up in the lift,” said Tommy. “They must have had a narrow escape of meeting us face to face. Pretty quick work, that. I—”
He stopped.
“What is it, sir?”
“Be silent, mon ami .