"Right!"
"Thirdly: Whittall's explanation of his wife's alleged depression is mere nonsense. It is a simple matter for a rich woman to adopt a child if she is lonely."
The Inspector nodded.
"Fourthly: when a person shoots himself dead one of two things happens. Occasionally the grip on the gun is spasmodic, and remains fixed in death. More often in the act of death all the muscles relax. In that case when she fell from the steps the gun would have been knocked from her hand, just as the
it is that we cannot play Providence in the lives of others. We can only look on and pity her..."
"That's what your head says," I murmured. "What about your heart?"
She rose, and began to pace the long room. "Ah, don't drag in heart," she said, almost crossly one would have thought; "I can't