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and Lady Angkatell are important--theylive here--they are what is called gentry in the county. This Miss Veronica Cray,she may have wanted to get to know them--and after all, this was a way." InspectorGrange got up. "Yes," he said, "that's perfectly possible, of course, but one doesn'twant to overlook anything. Still, I've no doubt that everything's going to be plainsailing. Sir Henry has identified the gun as one of his collection. It seems they wereactually practising with it the afternoon before. All Mrs. Christow had to do was togo into the study and get it from where she'd seen Sir Henry put it and theammunition away. It's all quite simple.""Yes," Poirot murmured. "It seems allquite simple." Just so, he thought, would a woman likeGerda Christow commit a crime. Without subterfuge or complexity--driven suddenlyto violence by the bitter anguish of a narrow but deeply loving nature . . . And yetsurely--surely, she would have had some sense of self-preservation. Or had sheacted in that blindness--that darkness of the spirit--when reason is entirely laidaside? He recalled her blank dazed face. He did not know--he simply did notknow. But he felt that he ought to know.Chapter XVIgerda christow pulled the black dress up over her head and let it fall on a chair.Her eyes were piteous with uncertainty. She said, "I don't know ... I really don'tknow . . . Nothing seems to matter."