It's translated as 'The Does' which is what Jacqueline Sassard is chalking on the floor when Stéphane Audran picks her up. They go off to out-of-season St Tropez, and when Jean-Louis Trintignant enters the scene, things start veering into romantic complication.
I wasn't sure where Chabrol was going with this one until near the end, but if you think about it, Sassard picks up and examines that poisoned dagger quite near the beginning.
Henri Attal and Dominique Sardi are the annoying and childish friends.
It's moodily photographed by Jean Rabier, again, with good music from Pierre Jansen. It's another chilly relationship / murder from Chabrol's key period.
Sassard should have retired on this one, but it was 1969's less loved le Voleur de Crimes (though I think this is a cameo done as a favour to Trintignant's wife Nadine, who wrote and directed it).
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