He does not elaborate on what these conditions are. Mr Ferguson tells Poirot that he is in Egypt "studying conditions". Mr Ferguson says that one has to break down and destroy before one can build up. Poirot observes that Mr Ferguson has a passion for violence, as he says that the "dressed-up, foppish good-for-nothings" ought to be shot. When Poirot asks who told him this, he says it was a man who worked with his hands, and was not ashamed of it. He says that he has heard that Linnet is one of the richest women in England, and has never done any work in her life. He mentions Linnet Doyle as an example, saying that there are hundreds and thousands of "wretched workers slaving for a mere pittance to keep her in silk stockings and useless luxuries". Mr Ferguson says that there are a lot of people on the Karnak he would say the world could do without. Mr Ferguson is described as a "tall, dark-haired young man, with a thin face and a pugnacious chin". He fell in love with Cornelia Robson and proposed to her, but she turned him down. In the novel Death on the Nile, Mr Ferguson (actually Lord Dawlish) is a young aristocrat, who became a communist while at Oxford.
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