:09:00
What a funny little man.
:09:02
Obviously a frog.
:09:03
Merci, Pierre, and could you please
inform the Princess Dragomiroff
:09:06
that Signor Bianchi and I will attend
on her and her maid
:09:09
- shortly in her compartment?
- Oui, monsieur.
:09:13
That is very proper.
:09:18
Monsieur le Comte, this is
a Hungarian diplomatic passport.
:09:21
It gives you and your wife
the right to refuse interrogation.
:09:24
In the circumstances,
we waive that right.
:09:27
You are most kind.
:09:28
As you know,
Madame la Comtesse,
:09:30
it is a joint passport which sets out
your husband's name and titles,
:09:34
but requires no particulars
about yourself,
:09:36
except your signature
and your maiden name.
:09:39
Your maiden name
is clearly Grunwald.
:09:41
That is correct, monsieur.
My family is of German extraction,
:09:45
though I now hold
Hungarian citizenship.
:09:48
Unfortunately, the first letter
of your married signature
:09:51
has been almost obliterated
by a grease spot.
:09:56
I must say, I find immigration officials
are often less than cleanly. They...
:10:00
They sit in their little box,
eating a buttered roll with one hand
:10:03
and stamping the spilt butter
into your passport with the other.
:10:06
Precisely. Therefore,
I would be greatly obliged
:10:10
if you could duplicate
the mutilated entry of your passport
:10:14
It can be important.
:10:15
there.
:10:17
...between East and West, where you
can eat the finest Oriental food.
:10:20
Elena Andrenyi née Grunwald.
:10:21
Good evening, sir.
This way, please.
:10:25
Ecco finalmente un amico.
:10:29
Monsieur Poirot.
:10:33
Bianchi.
:10:34
How are you, my friend?
:10:36
Allowing for the difference in pens,
the duplication seems exact.
:10:38
- Good to see you.
- You have saved me from apoplexy.
:10:41
- Sit down.
- Thank you.
:10:42
There would be little point, then,
in asking
:10:43
You have not dined well.
:10:44
whether this handkerchief is yours?
:10:46
The skewers are of better quality
than the kebab.
:10:48
Since it contains neither of my initials,
no point whatsoever, monsieur.
:10:49
The bottle is more
distinguished than its wine.
:10:52
And the coffee.
:10:52
And even less point in asking
the color of your dressing gown?
:10:56
Fortunately, I have been called
to London. I leave tonight.
:10:57
None, unless monsieur takes
a professional interest in apricot silk?
:10:59
- On the Orient Express?
- How else?