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Miss and Gilchrist
Other television roles include Pamela Flitton in A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1997 ), Miss Gilchrist in St. Ives ( 1998 ), Bettina the obsessive-compulsive interior decorator in Absolutely Fabulous, the sadistic Queen Elspeth in Hallmark's Snow White: The Fairest Of Them All ( 2001 ), and the emotionally repressed Queen Mary in The Lost Prince ( 2003 ).
These had been overheard by her paid companion, the timid Miss Gilchrist.
Poirot warns Entwhistle that Miss Gilchrist may herself be a target for the murderer.
She noticed that Cora has been copying postcards: one of her paintings, which Miss Gilchrist claims were all painted from life, features a pier that was destroyed in the war ; however the painting was completed quite recently.
That evening, Miss Gilchrist is nearly killed by arsenic poison in a slice of wedding cake apparently sent to her through the post.
Perhaps identifying the murderer may depend on finding a nun whom Miss Gilchrist claims to have noticed twice?
This lures even the reclusive Timothy from his home, back to the family mansion of Enderby, bringing his wife Maude and Miss Gilchrist, who is now assisting them.
It was Miss Gilchrist, who disguised herself as Cora as part of a complicated plot for her own gain, leaving Cora home asleep from a sedative in her tea.
Miss Gilchrist had successfully copied her mannerisms, well enough to fool those who had known her as adults.
Miss Gilchrist had rehearsed a characteristic turn of the head in a mirror, where the reflection is a reverse of reality.
Miss Gilchrist had further given herself away to Poirot, by referring to the wax flowers on the green malachite table the first day the relatives gathered to select objects before the auction.
These were on display on the day of the reading of Richard's will but had been put out of sight by the time Miss Gilchrist, as herself, visited Enderby Hall.
Miss Gilchrist saw what Cora had missed among the paintings that Cora had bought at the local sales.
Miss Gilchrist felt sure one was a painting by Vermeer, yet Cora had no idea how valuable the artwork was, and thus Miss Gilchrist began her desperate plot.
Miss Gilchrist covered the Vermeer with her own painting depicting the destroyed pier copied from the postcard, to disguise it amongst others done by Cora.
Miss Gilchrist loathed Cora ; even more, she loathed life as a dependent.
He had Mr. Entwhistle take it from the Timothy Abernethie home where Miss Gilchrist had left it.
Added to Poirot's explanation, these nuns became witness to the real Cora's presence in her own home as Miss Gilchrist was impersonating her at Enderby Hall.
There is a motif of nuns in this mystery, appearing at each house where Miss Gilchrist stayed.
Miss Gilchrist had invented what she overheard about Richard's fear of poisoning, for the furtherance of her plot.
Once accused, Miss Gilchrist broke down in a flood of complaints of the unbearable hardships of her life, her convoluted justification for the murder of an innocent woman.
Miss Gilchrist is found guilty as the murderer of Cora at the Assizes.

Miss and Cora
In 1917 another red brick hospital on Main Street was built by Dr. C. M. Cotham and Miss Cora Karbach, a nurse.
He is married to a former Miss Hong Kong, Cora Miao, and lives in San Francisco and New York City.
Dean joined the cast of the stage production of Calendar girls in 2009, playing Cora ( Miss July ); the production requires its cast to appear on stage naked.
Her television work has included playing the heroine Cora in The Last of the Mohicans in 1971, Tom Baker's first story line in Doctor Who in 1974-75, Robot, playing chief villain Miss Winters.
Jeeves has ruined Tuppy's relationships with the opera singer Cora Bellinger and the dog lover Miss Dalgleish in order to keep Tuppy with Angela, usually upon the request of Angela's mother ( Bertie's Aunt Dahlia ).

Miss and
Miss Marple, another of Christie s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.
In 2006 Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biopic of Potter s life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne.
' This is Miss Missouri Martin's way of saying she sees no diamond on Miss Billy Perry s finger.
Mornings were spent in the schoolroom ; there were regimental afternoon walks ; educating the young ladies continued at mealtimes when Miss Edgeworth ate with the family ; at night, the governess slept in a curtained off area in the girls bedroom.
Act II moves to Jack s country house, the Manor House in Woolton, Hertfordshire, where Cecily is found studying with her governess, Miss Prism.
As the happy couples embrace — Jack and Gwendolen, Algernon and Cecily, and even Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism — Lady Bracknell complains to her newfound relative: “ My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality .” “ On the contrary, Aunt Augusta ”, he replies, “ I ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of being Earnest .”
When Ole Miss opened, the campus consisted of only six buildings: two dormitories, two faculty houses, a steward s hall, and the Lyceum at the center.
The American Heritage Book of English Usage states that: " Using Ms. obviates the need for the guesswork involved in figuring out whether to address someone as Mrs. or Miss: you can t go wrong with Ms.
At tea with Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, Miss Spink spies danger in Coraline s future after reading her tea leaves, and gives her a stone with a hole in it for protection.
Coraline goes through the Other World, and overcomes all the Other Mother s obstacles, using her wits and Miss Spink s stone to locate the ghost children s souls.
*Miss Bateman ( white with red stamens )
Loveland s Valentine Re-mailing Program has inspired many other Valentine s Day programs including the Official Loveland Valentine, Miss Loveland Valentine and the Thompson Valley Rotary Heart s Program.
Founded in 1843 by educational reformer Sarah Porter, Miss Porter s has long been one of the most selective preparatory schools for girls in the country.
Because of her background in education and her gift for expression, Miss Mills had served with distinction as the head of the Olla Military Institute s English department.
When that happens the men drop what they are doing and go off from the deep southern hamlet of D Lo, Miss .” The town has since been recognized with a monument located at the town s community center which lists the names of all the D Lo citizens who served during the war.
A part of Miss Lizzie Simmerman s house, the rear portion, was one such house.

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