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William Bouguereau Birth of Venus Painting
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Are you saying - do you mean - that this was a premeditated crime?"
"I didn't thing so at first," said Miss Marple. "One wouldn't - naturally. It seemed like a quarrel and a man losing control and strangling the girl and then being faced with the problem which he had to solve within a very few minutes. But it really is too much of a coincidence that he should kill the girl in a fit of passion, and then look out of the window and find the train was going round a curve exactly at a spot where he could tip the body out, and where he could be sure of finding his way later and removing it! If he’d just thrown her out there by chance, he'd have done no more about it, and the body would, long before now, have been found."
She paused. Lucy stared at her.
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"You know," said Miss Marple thoughtfully, "it's really quite a clever way to have planned a crime - and I think it was very carefully planned. There's something so anonymous about a train. If he'd killed her in the place where she lived, or was staying, somebody might have noticed him come or go. Or if he’d driven her out in the country somewhere, someone might have noticed the car and its number and make. But a train is full of strangers coming and going. In a non-corridor carriage, along with her, it was quite easy - especially if you realise that he knew exactly what he was going to do next. He knew – he must have known - all about Rutherford Hall – its geographical position, I mean, its queer isolation – an island bounded by railway lines."
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