"You consider her vehemence unnatural?"
"Y—es. She is so very violent. I wondered really whether she is quite sane on that point."
Poirot shook his head energetically.
"No, no, you are on a wrong tack there. There is nothing weak-minded or degenerate about Miss Howard. She is an excellent specimen of wellbalanced English beef and brawn. She is sanity itself."
"Yet her hatred of Inglethorp seems almost a mania.My idea was—a very ridiculous one, no doubt—that she had intended to poison him—and that, in some way, Mrs. Inglethorp got hold of it by mistake.But I don't at all see how it could have been done.The whole thing is absurd and ridiculous to the last degree."