They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #5)

by Agatha Christie

Everyone’s life has a tempo.

Stephen was in love with Gina. Gina might or might not be in love with Stephen. Walter Hudd was clearly not enjoying himself. These were incidents that might and did occur in all places and at most times. There was, unfortunately, nothing exceptional about them. They ended in the divorce court and everybody hopefully started again—when fresh tangles were created.

She was a faithful wife to my father and loyal to all his ideas. She has never thought of herself, but put the welfare of others first.”

Gross. Why in the world is this admirable?

“You can’t really spare anyone anything,” she said. “Things always have to be faced sooner or later. And therefore it had better be sooner.

Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially—but there’s no need to dwell on it.

‘The illusion,’ he pointed out, ‘is in the eyes of the audience.’” “Like conjurers,” Miss Marple murmured vaguely. “They do it with mirrors is, I believe, the slang phrase.”

“When you only look at one side of a thing, you only see one side,” continued Miss Marple. “But everything fits in perfectly well if you can only make up your mind what is reality and what is illusion.”

So many people with good hearts have no sense.

people who can be very good can be very bad, too.