Cat Among the Pigeons - Agatha Christie [94]
He rose to his feet.
“I shall charge you for my services, you know,” said Mr. Robinson. “And my charges are pretty high. But I shan’t cheat you.”
She gave him a level glance.
“No, I don’t think you will. And I need someone who knows about business, because I don’t.”
“You seem a very sensible woman if I may say so. Now then, I’m to take these? You don’t want to keep—just one—say?”
He watched her with curiosity, the sudden flicker of excitement, the hungry covetous eyes—and then the flicker died.
“No,” said Alice. “I won’t keep—even one.” She flushed. “Oh I daresay that seems daft to you—not to keep just one big ruby or an emerald—just as a keepsake. But you see, he and I—he was a Moslem but he let me read bits now and again out of the Bible. And we read that bit—about a woman whose price was above rubies. And so—I won’t have any jewels. I’d rather not….”
“A most unusual woman,” said Mr. Robinson to himself as he walked down the path and into his waiting Rolls.
He repeated to himself,
“A most unusual woman….”
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About the Author
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She is the author of eighty crime novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays, two memoirs, and six novels written under the name Mary Westmacott.
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