Rembrandt Painting

Rembrandt Painting
"Yes，sir，you go through that door at the back，sir.You'll excuse menot coming with you，but I've got to stay-"Poirot passed through the door inquestion and I followed him.Behind the shop was a microscopic sort ofparlour and kitchen combined-it was neat and clean but very dreary lookingand scantily furnished.On the mantelpiece were a few photographs.I went upand looked at them and Poirot joined me. The photographs were three in all.One was a cheap portrait of the girlwe had been with that afternoon，Mary Drower.She was obviously wearing herbest clothes and had the self-conscious，wooden smile on her face that soofter disfigures the expression in posed photography，and makes a snapshotpreferable.
Rembrandt Painting
The second was a more expensive type of picture-an artistically blurredreproduction of an elderly woman with white hair.A high fur collar stood upround the neck. I guessed that this was probably the Miss Rose who had left Mrs Ascherthe small legacy which had enabled her to start in business. The third photograph was a very old one，now faded and yellow.Itrepresented a young man and woman in somewhat old-fashioned clothes standingarm in arm.The man had a button-hole and there was an air of bygonefestivity about the whole pose. "Probably a wedding picture，"said Poirot.
Rembrandt Painting