The Adventure of the Cheap Flat: A Short Story

I liked how this story started with just Hastings and the people making him feel good about himself. He even gets in a good Sherlock and Watson reference, not know that he himself is worse than even Watson. Otherwise I think this story was incredibly short and didn't really make a lot of sense. Without the lengthy explanation from Poirot we're just left to believe his little blurb about it without more