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Updated: June 22, 2025
Marple's male friends were, for the most part, characterized by a certain grossness and sensuality; in their amusements at games of chance one or two had displayed an open avarice. These things jarred on the man who had toiled among the rocks and woods, where he had practised a stringent self-denial. "I heard that you figured in a striking little scene," Millicent went on. "I couldn't help it."
Teddy has deserted me." "Teddy?" queried Lisle, who wondered if she were referring to her brother. "I thought his name was Jim." "It's Marple's stout friend with the dyed hair I mean. I told him what would happen if he ate as he persisted in doing at lunch. It's too hot to gormandize; I wasn't astonished when he collapsed at the steep place on the last walk.
On Wednesday Lisle walked over to Marple's house, because he had promised to go, though he would much rather have spent an hour or two with Nasmyth and Millicent in the latter's drawing-room. He had no opportunity for any private speech with Bella, but she flung him a grateful glance as he came in.
"No," she laughed mischievously; "I think you're loyal; and there are situations from which it's difficult to extricate oneself. Didn't you find it so, for example, when you declined to come here with Nasmyth, because Miss Crestwick had pressed you to go to Marple's?"
The little room in Marple's house, where the Crestwicks were staying, was hot and partly filled with cigar smoke which drifted in filmy streaks athwart the light of the green-shaded hanging-lamp. Lisle sat beneath the lamp, studying the cards in his hand, until he leaned back in his chair and flung a glance about the table.
It's curious that you seem proud of it. In this case, I don't mind your keeping me, because they can't drive up the birds until we have crossed the higher moor. It will annoy Gladwyne and his keeper, and I'm not pleased with either of them. I wanted Flo Marple's station at the first butts." Lisle considered this.
I didn't seem to find any sensible answer." "You could get out of it when the freighters go down with the dogs and sledges," Lisle suggested. "It would be a good deal more comfortable at Marple's, for instance." "Do you want to get rid of me? I suppose I'm not much help." "Oh, no!" Lisle assured him. "It only struck me that you might find the novelty of the experience wearing off.
It cost her an effort to rejoin the others, but she was equal to it and during the rest of her stay her conversation was a shade more audacious than usual. Evening was drawing on when Bella strolled aimlessly down the ascending road that led to Marple's residence.
They went on together through the shadowy, crimson-tinted dale until Millicent stopped at the gate of a field-road. "I am going to one of the cottages yonder," she explained. "I expect Nasmyth on Wednesday evening. Are you coming with him?" "I'm sorry, but I'm going to Marple's. You see, I promised." "Promised Marple?"
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