Sunday, January 24, 2010

Wages of Sin

Subject:  Wages of Sin
Quote:  “The wages of sin, mademoiselle, are said to be death.  But sometimes the wages of sin seem to be luxury.  Is that any more endurable, I wonder?  To be cut off from one’s own home life.  To catch, perhaps, a single glimpse of it when the way back to it is barred—“
Character:  M. Hercule Poirot
Chapter/Story:  Book Two—13
Book Title/Copyright:  There is a Tide, 1948