"Yes, I suppose you might put it like that."
"I gather that the marriage had not been a happy one from the beginning?"
"Derek Kettering is rotten to the core," said Van Aldin. "He is incapable of making any woman happy."
"He is, as you say in England, a bad lot. That is right, is it not?"
Van Aldin nodded.
"Très bien! You advise Madame to seek a divorce, she agrees; you consult your solicitors. When does M. Kettering get news of what is in the wind?"
"I sent for him myself, and explained the course of action I proposed to take."
"And what did he say?" murmured Poirot softly.
Van Aldin's face darkened at the remembrance.
"He was infernally impudent."