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For a day or two after our visit from the fake Asylum attendant I was in some hopes that he might return, and I refused to leave the flat even for a moment. As far as I could see, he had no reason to suspect that we had penetrated his disguise. He might, I thought, return and try to remove the body, but Poirot scoffed at my reasoning.
"_Mon ami_," he said, "if you wish you may wait in to put salt on the little bird's tail, but for me I do not waste my time so."