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“
Here
,
as
we
know
,
I
was
wrong
,
and
I
was
forced
to
abandon
that
idea
.
I
faced
the
problem
from
a
new
standpoint
.
Now
,
at
four
o
’
clock
,
Dorcas
overheard
her
mistress
saying
angrily
:
‘
You
need
not
think
that
any
fear
of
publicity
,
or
scandal
between
husband
and
wife
will
deter
me
.
”
I
conjectured
,
and
conjectured
rightly
,
that
these
words
were
addressed
,
not
to
her
husband
,
but
to
Mr
.
John
Cavendish
.
At
five
o
’
clock
,
an
hour
later
,
she
uses
almost
the
same
words
,
but
the
standpoint
is
different
.
She
admits
to
Dorcas
,
‘
I
don
’
t
know
what
to
do
;
scandal
between
husband
and
wife
is
a
dreadful
thing
.
’
At
four
o
’
clock
she
has
been
angry
,
but
completely
mistress
of
herself
.
At
five
o
’
clock
she
is
in
violent
distress
,
and
speaks
of
having
had
a
great
shock
.
“
Looking
at
the
matter
psychologically
,
I
drew
one
deduction
which
I
was
convinced
was
correct
.
The
second
‘
scandal
’
she
spoke
of
was
not
the
same
as
the
first
—
and
it
concerned
herself
!
“
Let
us
reconstruct
.
At
four
o
’
clock
,
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
quarrels
with
her
son
,
and
threatens
to
denounce
him
to
his
wife
—
who
,
by
the
way
,
overheard
the
greater
part
of
the
conversation
.
At
four
-
thirty
,
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
,
in
consequence
of
a
conversation
on
the
validity
of
wills
,
makes
a
will
in
favour
of
her
husband
,
which
the
two
gardeners
witness
.
At
five
o
’
clock
,
Dorcas
finds
her
mistress
in
a
state
of
considerable
agitation
,
with
a
slip
of
paper
—
‘
a
letter
,
’
Dorcas
thinks
—
in
her
hand
,
and
it
is
then
that
she
orders
the
fire
in
her
room
to
be
lighted
.
Presumably
,
then
,
between
four
-
thirty
and
five
o
’
clock
,
something
has
occurred
to
occasion
a
complete
revolution
of
feeling
,
since
she
is
now
as
anxious
to
destroy
the
will
,
as
she
was
before
to
make
it
.
What
was
that
something
?
“
As
far
as
we
know
,
she
was
quite
alone
during
that
half
-
hour
.
Nobody
entered
or
left
that
boudoir
.
What
then
occasioned
this
sudden
change
of
sentiment
?
“
One
can
only
guess
,
but
I
believe
my
guess
to
be
correct
.
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
had
no
stamps
in
her
desk
.
We
know
this
,
because
later
she
asked
Dorcas
to
bring
her
some
.
Now
in
the
opposite
corner
of
the
room
stood
her
husband
’
s
desk
—
locked
.
She
was
anxious
to
find
some
stamps
,
and
,
according
to
my
theory
,
she
tried
her
own
keys
in
the
desk
.
That
one
of
them
fitted
I
know
.
She
therefore
opened
the
desk
,
and
in
searching
for
the
stamps
she
came
across
something
else
—
that
slip
of
paper
which
Dorcas
saw
in
her
hand
,
and
which
assuredly
was
never
meant
for
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
’
s
eyes
.
On
the
other
hand
,
Mrs
.
Cavendish
believed
that
the
slip
of
paper
to
which
her
mother
-
in
-
law
clung
so
tenaciously
was
a
written
proof
of
her
own
husband
’
s
infidelity
.
She
demanded
it
from
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
who
assured
her
,
quite
truly
,
that
it
had
nothing
to
do
with
that
matter
.
Mrs
.
Cavendish
did
not
believe
her
.
She
thought
that
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
was
shielding
her
stepson
.
Now
Mrs
.
Cavendish
is
a
very
resolute
woman
,
and
,
behind
her
mask
of
reserve
,
she
was
madly
jealous
of
her
husband
.
She
determined
to
get
hold
of
that
paper
at
all
costs
,
and
in
this
resolution
chance
came
to
her
aid
.
She
happened
to
pick
up
the
key
of
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
’
s
despatch
-
case
,
which
had
been
lost
that
morning
.
She
knew
that
her
mother
-
in
-
law
invariably
kept
all
important
papers
in
this
particular
case
.
“
Mrs
.
Cavendish
,
therefore
,
made
her
plans
as
only
a
woman
driven
desperate
through
jealousy
could
have
done
.
Some
time
in
the
evening
she
unbolted
the
door
leading
into
Mademoiselle
Cynthia
’
s
room
.
Possibly
she
applied
oil
to
the
hinges
,
for
I
found
that
it
opened
quite
noiselessly
when
I
tried
it
.
She
put
off
her
project
until
the
early
hours
of
the
morning
as
being
safer
,
since
the
servants
were
accustomed
to
hearing
her
move
about
her
room
at
that
time
.
She
dressed
completely
in
her
land
kit
,
and
made
her
way
quietly
through
Mademoiselle
Cynthia
’
s
room
into
that
of
Mrs
.
Inglethorp
.
”
He
paused
a
moment
,
and
Cynthia
interrupted
:
“
But
I
should
have
woken
up
if
anyone
had
come
through
my
room
?
”
