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Dr. Bauerstein
Dorcas is one of Emily Inglethorp’s housekeepers. A devoted employee, she’s one of the only people who seems to care about Emily’s death. She does whatever she can to help Poirot crack the case, answering all of his questions and giving him inside knowledge about what goes on at Styles Court.
Dorcas Quotes in The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The The Mysterious Affair at Styles quotes below are all either spoken by Dorcas or refer to Dorcas . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5: “It Isn’t Strychnine, Is It?”
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Everyone was assembled in the dining room. Under the circumstances, we were naturally not a cheerful party. The reaction after a shock is always trying, and I think we were suffering from it. Decorum and good breeding naturally enjoined that our demeanour should be much as usual, yet I could not help wondering if this self-control were really a matter of great difficulty. There were no red eyes, no signs of secretly indulged grief. I felt that I was right in my opinion that Dorcas was the person most affected by the personal side of the tragedy.
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Dorcas Quotes in The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The The Mysterious Affair at Styles quotes below are all either spoken by Dorcas or refer to Dorcas . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5: “It Isn’t Strychnine, Is It?”
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Everyone was assembled in the dining room. Under the circumstances, we were naturally not a cheerful party. The reaction after a shock is always trying, and I think we were suffering from it. Decorum and good breeding naturally enjoined that our demeanour should be much as usual, yet I could not help wondering if this self-control were really a matter of great difficulty. There were no red eyes, no signs of secretly indulged grief. I felt that I was right in my opinion that Dorcas was the person most affected by the personal side of the tragedy.
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