- All's Well That Ends Well
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Here, Poirot comforts Rosalie after she confesses to him that her mother, Mrs. Otterbourne, is an alcoholic. Rosalie’s attempts to cut her mother off have led her mother to resent her, which explains why Rosalie is always so sulky in public.
Like many characters in the story, Rosalie suffers under the burden of a secret she must keep. Some of the characters in the story—like Jacqueline, Simon, and Richetti—are keeping grave, murderous secrets, all of which clearly cause them a lot of anxiety. But the subplot with Rosalie and her mother shows that even relatively mundane secrets can take a…