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nt. "Perfectly，perfectly.On the face of it，highly improbable.But one musttake all possibilities into account.The body was lying-how?" The doctor gave us a careful description of the position of thevictim.It was his opinion that she had been standing with her back to thecounter (and therefore to her assailant)when the blow had been struck.Shehad slipped down in a heap behind the counter quite out of sight of anyoneentering the shop casually. When we had thanked Dr Kerr and taken our leave，Poirot said:

"You perceive，Hastings，that we have already one further point infavour of Ascher's innocence.If he had been abusing his wife and threateningher，she would have been facing him over the counter.Instead she had herback to her assailant-obviously she is reaching down tobacco or cigarettesfor a customer." I gave a little shiver. "Pretty gruesome."