If Emily Inglethorp had lived through the night, she would have met with her lawyer, Mr. Wells, the following day. In doing so, she would have learned that the will she’d just destroyed—the one benefitting Alfred—didn’t change anything about her affairs; by marrying Alfred, she unknowingly overrode her previous will, which benefitted John Cavendish. However, Emily
didn’t live through the night, so her inheritance was, at the time of her death, slated to go to Alfred, though Poirot’s discovery will certainly ensure that this doesn’t happen.