The Theft of the Royal Ruby - a Hercule Poirot Short Story Quotes

“He was interrupted. Not rudely interrupted. The interruption was suave, dexterous, persuasive rather than contradictory.”
― Agatha Christie, The Theft of the Royal Ruby - a Hercule Poirot Short Story

“If one wanted to sum up Mr. Jesmond in a word, the word would have been discretion. Everything about Mr. Jesmond was discreet. His well-cut but inconspicuous clothes, his pleasant, well-bred voice which rarely soared out of an agreeable monotone, his light-brown hair just thinning a little at the temples, his pale serious face. It seemed to Hercule Poirot that he had known not one Mr. Jesmond but a dozen Mr. Jesmonds in his time, all using sooner or later the same phrase—“a position of the utmost delicacy.”
― Agatha Christie, The Theft of the Royal Ruby - a Hercule Poirot Short Story