 Four days later, after breakfast)"
Poirot is finishing a breakfast served by his French maid, Margot, when he receives a visit from Caryl and James Sheppard and then Inspector Davies in quick succession.The policeman tells Poirot that his theory that only Sir Roger's prints would be found on the dagger handle proved correct and that Ralph is being sought by the police.Flora and Blunt arrive and, under Poirot's insistent questioning, Flora confesses that she never saw her uncle in the study as she claimed and that she stole the missing one hundred pounds, desperate for money.