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Miss Marple saw Gina and Wally go into the house together.
She was standing1 at the spot where Inspector2 Curry3 had made his exper-
iment with Constable4 Dodgett earlier in the afternoon.
Miss Bellever’s voice behind her made her jump.
“You’ll get a chill, Miss Marple, standing about like that after the sun’s
gone down.”
Miss Marple fell meekly5 into step with her and they walked briskly
through the house.
“I was thinking about conjuring6 tricks,” said Miss Marple. “So difficult
when you’re watching them to see how they’re done, and yet, once they
are explained, so absurdly simple. (Although, even now, I can’t imagine
how conjurers produce bowls of goldfish!) Did you ever see the Lady who
is Sawn in Half?—such a thrilling trick. It fascinated me when I was eleven
years old, I remember. And I never could think how it was done. But the
other day there was an article in some paper giving the whole thing away.
I don’t think a newspaper should do that, do you? It seems it’s not one girl
—but two. The head of the one and the feet of the other. You think it’s one
girl and it’s really two—and the other way round would work equally
well, wouldn’t it?”
Miss Bellever looked at her with faint surprise. Miss Marple was not of-
ten so fluffy7 and incoherent as this. “It’s been too much for the old lady, all
this,” she thought.
“When you only look at one side of a thing, you only see one side,” con-
tinued Miss Marple. “But everything fits in perfectly8 well if you can only
make up your mind what is reality and what is illusion.” She added ab-
ruptly, “Is Carrie Louise—all right?”
“Yes,” said Miss Bellever. “She’s all right. But it must have been a shock,
you know—finding out that someone wanted to kill her. I mean particu-
larly a shock to her, because she doesn’t understand violence.”
“Carrie Louise understands some things that we don’t,” said Miss Marple
thoughtfully. “She always has.”
“I know what you mean—but she doesn’t live in the real world.”
“Doesn’t she?”
Miss Bellever looked at her in surprise.
“There never was a more unworldly person than Cara—”
“You don’t think that perhaps —” Miss Marple broke off, as Edgar
Lawson passed them, swinging along at a great pace. He gave a kind of
shamefaced nod, but averted10 his face as he passed.
“I’ve remembered now who he reminds me of,” said Miss Marple. “It
came to me suddenly, just a few moments ago. He reminds me of a young
man called Leonard Wylie. His father was a dentist, but he got old and
blind and his hand used to shake, and so people preferred to go to the son.
But the old man was very miserable11 about it, and moped, said he was no
good for anything anymore, and Leonard, who was very softhearted and
rather foolish, began to pretend he drank more than he should. He always
smelt12 of whisky, and he used to sham9 being rather fuddled when his pa-
tients came. His idea was that they’d go back to the father again and say
the younger man was no good.”
“And did they?”
“Of course not,” said Miss Marple. “What happened was what anybody
with any sense could have told him would happen! The patients went to
Mr. Reilly, the rival dentist. So many people with good hearts have no
sense. Besides, Leonard Wylie was so unconvincing … His idea of drunk-
enness wasn’t in the least like real drunkenness, and he overdid13 the
whisky—spilling it on his clothes, you know, to a perfectly impossible ex-
tent.”
They went into the house by the side door.

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1 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的
参考例句：
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
2 inspector q6kxH     
n.检查员，监察员，视察员
参考例句：
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
3 curry xnozh     
n.咖哩粉，咖哩饭菜；v.用咖哩粉调味，用马栉梳，制革
参考例句：
  • Rice makes an excellent complement to a curry dish.有咖喱的菜配米饭最棒。
  • Add a teaspoonful of curry powder.加一茶匙咖喱粉。
4 constable wppzG     
n.(英国)警察，警官
参考例句：
  • The constable conducted the suspect to the police station.警官把嫌疑犯带到派出所。
  • The constable kept his temper,and would not be provoked.那警察压制着自己的怒气，不肯冒起火来。
5 meekly meekly     
adv.温顺地，逆来顺受地
参考例句：
  • He stood aside meekly when the new policy was proposed. 当有人提出新政策时，他唯唯诺诺地站 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He meekly accepted the rebuke. 他顺从地接受了批评。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 conjuring IYdyC     
n.魔术
参考例句：
  • Paul's very good at conjuring. 保罗很会变戏法。
  • The entertainer didn't fool us with his conjuring. 那个艺人变的戏法没有骗到我们。
7 fluffy CQjzv     
adj.有绒毛的，空洞的
参考例句：
  • Newly hatched chicks are like fluffy balls.刚孵出的小鸡像绒毛球。
  • The steamed bread is very fluffy.馒头很暄。
8 perfectly 8Mzxb     
adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地
参考例句：
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
9 sham RsxyV     
n./adj.假冒(的)，虚伪(的)
参考例句：
  • They cunningly played the game of sham peace.他们狡滑地玩弄假和平的把戏。
  • His love was a mere sham.他的爱情是虚假的。
10 averted 35a87fab0bbc43636fcac41969ed458a     
防止，避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 )； 转移
参考例句：
  • A disaster was narrowly averted. 及时防止了一场灾难。
  • Thanks to her skilful handling of the affair, the problem was averted. 多亏她对事情处理得巧妙，才避免了麻烦。
11 miserable g18yk     
adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的
参考例句：
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
12 smelt tiuzKF     
v.熔解，熔炼；n.银白鱼，胡瓜鱼
参考例句：
  • Tin is a comparatively easy metal to smelt.锡是比较容易熔化的金属。
  • Darby was looking for a way to improve iron when he hit upon the idea of smelting it with coke instead of charcoal.达比一直在寻找改善铁质的方法，他猛然想到可以不用木炭熔炼，而改用焦炭。
13 overdid 13d94caed9267780ee7ce0b54a5fcae4     
v.做得过分( overdo的过去式 )；太夸张；把…煮得太久；（工作等）过度
参考例句：
  • We overdid the meat and it didn't taste good. 我们把肉煮得太久，结果味道不好了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He overdid and became extremely tired. 他用力过猛，感到筋疲力尽。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

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