Curtain: Poirot's Last Case: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

by Agatha Christie

As one gets on, one tends more and more to revert to the old days. One tries to recapture old emotions.

I find it painful to be here, in a way, and yet it brings back to me a hundred old thoughts and emotions that I’d quite forgotten I ever felt.

“One feels,” he said simply, “safer alone.”

“The darkest day, lived till tomorrow, will have passed away?”