: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?
:11:01
Evviva! I have a traveling companion.
Eccellente.
:11:02
I take a professional interest
in crime, madame.
:11:05
Have you and your husband
ever visited America together?
:11:05
Well, where shall we dine?
:11:08
No. We first met in Wiesbaden...
:11:11
...much later.
- Later than what?
:11:13
Later than the days of my youth,
when I was on post in Washington.
:11:17
You lived in Washington?
:11:18
Oh, what diplomat of promise has not?
:11:20
I am desolate, Monsieur Poirot.
:11:22
There is not one single first-class
sleeping berth on the entire train.
:11:22
You did not sleep well last night?
:11:25
On the contrary, apart from one of
Mrs. Hubbard's customary outbursts,
:11:26
- What? In December?
- In December, signor.
:11:29
I slept very soundly.
:11:30
Has Bulgaria declared war on Turkey?
:11:31
- And you, madame?
- Oh, even more soundly.
:11:32
Are the aristocracy fleeing
the country?
:11:34
We, neither of us, woke till after 8.
:11:34
I am a director of the line,
:11:36
Monsieur Hercule Poirot
is not only a detective
:11:36
As is my custom on night trains,
I took Trional.
:11:38
of international fame and distinction,
but he is also my personal friend.
:11:40
Diethyl-sulphone-dimethyl-methane.
:11:41
Signor Bianchi, Monsieur Poirot...
:11:42
One dilutes the white crystals
with water, it is a strong hypnotic.
:11:43
Courage, my friend,
we'll arrange something.
:11:45
Andiamo!
We must go. Come on.
:11:46
He makes it sound like a poison.
:11:48
As with most sleeping drafts,
if taken in sufficient quantities,
:11:51
it is a poison.
:11:53
- You are not accusing...
- You are not accused,
:11:56
you are excused.
:11:58
Thank you both for your help
and cooperation.