Why didn't they ask the Evans? - Agatha Christie

True to the precepts handed down to her by her mother and grandmother — to wit: that a true lady can neither be shocked nor surprised — Miss Marple merely raised her eyebrows and shook her head,

I am all that there is of the most real.

The tear rose in Miss Marple's eyes. Succeeding pity, there came anger - anger against a heartless killer. And then, displacing both these emotions, there came a surge of triumph - the triumph some specialist might feel who has successfully reconstructed an extinct animal from a fragment of jawbone and a couple of teeth.