The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Part 42 (1/2)
”Was she in good spirits?”
”Never better She kept talking of e should do in our future lives”
”Indeed! That is very interesting And on the ht as possible--at least until after the ceree in her then?”
”Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp The incident however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible bearing upon the case”
”Pray let us have it, for all that”
”Oh, it is childish She dropped her bouquet as ent towards the vestry She was passing the front pew at the time, and it fell over into the pew There was a entleain, and it did not appear to be the worse for the fall Yet when I spoke to her of the e, on our way ho cause”
”Indeed! You say that there was a gentleeneral public were present, then?”
”Oh, yes It is impossible to exclude theentleman was not one of your wife's friends?”
”No, no; I call hi person I hardly noticed his appearance But really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point”
”Lady St Si in a less cheerful fraone to it What did she do on re-entering her father's house?”
”I saw her in conversation with her maid”
”And who is her maid?”
”Alice is her name She is an American and came from California with her”
”A confidential servant?”
”A little too much so It seereat liberties Still, of course, in As in a different way”
”How long did she speak to this Alice?”
”Oh, a fewelse to think of”
”You did not overhear what they said?”
”Lady St Si a clai of the kind I have no idea what sheis very expressive so to her maid?”
”She walked into the breakfast-room”
”On your arm?”
”No, alone She was very independent in little matters like that
Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose hurriedly, y, and left the room She never came back”