Poirot (TV Series)

After the Funeral (2006)

Monica Dolan: Cora Gallaccio, Miss Gilchrist

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• Miss Gilchrist : Young people nowadays seem so uncaring. They don't know what it is to be alone in the world.

  Hercule Poirot : The journey of life... it can be hard for those of us who travel alone, Mademoiselle. Have you always been a companion to a lady?

  Miss Gilchrist : No. I used to have my own tea shop, "The Willow Tree". Oh, it was a delightful little place, Mr Poirot. All the china was blue-willow patterned... so pretty, and the cakes were really awfully good, if I say it myself. But a Lyons' establishment opened up nearby and my little place failed.

  Hercule Poirot : Ah. Oh, this happens to many people in these times, I think.

  Miss Gilchrist : [hearing a service bell ring]  It's Mr Timothys' bell...

• Miss Gilchrist : [after Poirot reveals she is the murderer]  She was a thoroughly stupid woman! Endlessly wittering on about this place and what you all did as children. You don't know how truly stultifying it is to listen to someone talking about the same things day after day, and pretending to be interested. "Oh, yes, Mrs. Gallaccio," and "Really, Mrs. Gallaccio?" And in truth just bored, bored, bored! And nothing to look forward to but more of the same.