Mabelle knew them there as she was in the same repertory as Gerda. In the original, Gerda and Alistair never went to India-they met in Oxford. This is set during the time of the durbah of the Prince of Wales, hence 1921, and about 15 years before the events in the book, During this scene, Gerda announces that she and Alistair are to be married. A lengthy preambular sequence depicts Mabelle, Alistair and Gerda while they were in India.In the original, some of the crucial connections are made by Poirot in his mind and the reader has at times little insight into his thought process. There are a number of preambular scenes which set the stage and are probably there to "give an equal chance" to the viewer i.e.
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