“Nonsense. You’re up to something, Hercule Poirot.” “Are you acquainted with the classics, Madame?” “What have the classics got to do with it?” “They have this to do with it. I emulate my great predecessor Hercules. One of the Labors of Hercules was the taming of the wild horses of Diomedes.” “Don’t tell me you came down here to train horses—at your age—and always wearing patent-leather shoes! You don’t look to me as though you’d ever been on a horse in your life!” “The horses, Madame, are symbolic. They were the wild horses who ate human flesh.” “How very unpleasant of them. I always do think
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