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Elephants Can Remember
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Dedication
CHAPTER 1. A Literary Luncheon
CHAPTER 2. First Mention of Elephants
CHAPTER 3. Great Aunt Alice’s Guide to Knowledge
CHAPTER 4. Celia
CHAPTER 5. Old Sins Have Long Shadows
CHAPTER 6. An Old Friend Remembers
CHAPTER 7. Back to the Nursery
CHAPTER 8. Mrs Oliver at Work
CHAPTER 9. Results of Elephantine Research
CHAPTER 10. Desmond
CHAPTER 11. Superintendent Garroway and Poirot Compare Notes
CHAPTER 12. Celia Meets Hercule Poirot
CHAPTER 13. Mrs Burton-Cox
CHAPTER 14. Dr Willoughby
CHAPTER 15. Eugene and Rosentelle, Hair Stylists and Beauticians
CHAPTER 16. Mr Goby Reports
CHAPTER 17. Poirot Announces Departure
CHAPTER 18. Interlude
CHAPTER 19. Maddy and Zélie
CHAPTER 20. Court of Enquiry
Footnotes. Book 1: Elephants. Chapter 5: Old Sins Have Long Shadows
Chapter 9: Results of Elephantine Research
ALSO BY AGATHA CHRISTIE. Mysteries
Poirot
Marple
Tommy & Tuppence
Published as Mary Westmacott
Memoirs
Play and Stories
About the Publisher
To Molly Myers
in return for many kindnesses
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‘Oh,’ said Mrs Oliver, rather pleasurably surprised. She felt she could deal perhaps with a goddaughter. She had a good many goddaughters—and godsons, for that matter. There were times, she had to admit as the years were growing upon her, when she couldn’t remember them all. She had done her duty in due course, one’s duty being to send toys to your god-children at Christmas in their early years, to visit them and their parents, or to have them visit you during the course of their upbringing, to take the boys out from school perhaps, and the girls also. And then, when the crowning days came, either the twenty-first birthday at which a godmother must do the right thing and let it be acknowledged to be done, and do it handsomely, or else marriage which entailed the same type of gift and a financial or other blessing. After that godchildren rather receded into the middle or far distance. They married or went abroad to foreign countries, foreign embassies, or taught in foreign schools or took up social projects. Anyway, they faded little by little out of your life. You were pleased to see them if they suddenly, as it were, floated up on the horizon again. But you had to remember to think when you had seen them last, whose daughters they were, what link had led to your being chosen as a godmother.
‘Celia Ravenscroft,’ said Mrs Oliver, doing her best. ‘Yes, yes, of course. Yes, definitely.’
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