Assumptions

Subject:  Assumptions
Quote:  “Madre…would have wished me to go on with my work.”
            Hercule Poirot had heard many people say much the same thing.  It was one of the most convenient assumptions, this knowledge of what the dead would wish.  The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones’ wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.
Character:  Omniscient Narrator
Chapter/Story:  22
Book Title/Copyright:  Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, 1952