Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)

by Agatha Christie

“What about this,” she said, “for the apple bobbing? Kind of gay, I thought.”

can’t help thinking,” said Ariadne Oliver, “that girls are really very silly nowadays.” “Don’t you think they always were?” asked Rowena Drake. Mrs. Oliver considered. “I suppose you’re right,” she admitted.

the bright one with the peroxide hair.

“Ding dong dell, no pussy in the well?” said Hercule Poirot. “That is what you mean?”