"You didn't go into her room again?"
"No, sir.
I had finished with it."
Poirot nodded. He said:
"There is another thing I want to know.
What people bathed before breakfast this morning?"
"I couldn't say about the other wing and the floor above.
Only about this one."
"That is all I want to know."
"Well, sir. Captain Marshall and Mr Redfern were the only ones this morning, I think.
They always go down for an early dip."
"Did you see them?"
"No, sir, but their wet bathing things were hanging over the balcony rail as usual."
"Miss Linda Marshall did not bathe this morning?"
"No, sir.
All her bathing dresses were quite dry."
"Ah," said Poirot.
"That is what I wanted to know."
Gladys Narracott volunteered: "She does most mornings, sir."
"And the other three, Miss Darnley, Mrs Redfern and Mrs Marshall?"
"Mrs Marshall never, sir.
Miss Darnley has once or twice, I think.
Mrs Redfern doesn't often bathe before breakfast - only when it's very hot, but she didn't this morning."
Again Poirot nodded.
Then he asked:
"I wonder if you have noticed whether a bottle is missing from any of the rooms you look after in this wing?"
"A bottle, sir?
What kind of bottle?"
"Unfortunately I do not know.
But have you noticed - if one has gone?"
Gladys said frankly:
"I shouldn't from Mrs Marshall's room, sir, and that's a fact.
She has ever so many."
"And the other rooms?"
"Well, I'm not sure about Miss Darnley. She has a good many creams and lotions.
But from the other rooms, yes, I would, sir.
I mean if I were to look special. If I were noticing, so to speak."
"But you haven't actually noticed?"
"No, because I wasn't looking special, as I say."
"Perhaps you would go and look now, then."
"Certainly, sir."
She left the room, her print dress rustling. Weston looked at Poirot. He said: "What's all this?"
Poirot murmured: "My orderly mind, that is vexed by trifles!
Miss Brewster, this morning, was bathing off the rocks before breakfast, and she says that a bottle was thrown from above and nearly hit her.
Eh bien, I want to know who threw that bottle and why?"
"My dear man, any one may have chucked a bottle away."
"Not at all.
To begin with, it could only have been thrown from a window on the east side of the hotel - that is, one of the windows of the rooms we have just examined.
Now I ask you, if you have an empty bottle on your dressing-table or in your bathroom, what do you do with it?
I will tell you, you drop it into the wastepaper basket.