But in this case censure has been too quick to interpret suspicious circumstances--suspicious, I admit.

Far be it from me to speak in defence of such a person as Mrs.Wade; I think she is a source of incalculable harm to all who are on friendly terms with her--especially young and impressionable women; but you must trust my judgment in this instance: I am convinced she is not guilty.

Her agitation in the coroner's court has no special significance.

No; the solution of the mystery is not so simple; it involves wider issues--calls for a more profound interpretation of character and motives.

Mrs.Quarrier--pray attend to this, Mr.Blenkinsop--represents a type of woman becoming, I have reason to think, only too common in our time, women who cultivate the intellect at the expense of the moral nature, who abandon religion and think they have found a substitute for it in the so-called humanitarianism of the day.