By some cruel stroke of fortune, almost the first person I saw was Lady Dominey.

The shock was too much for her--she fainted--and--" "And has never been quite herself since," the lawyer concluded.

"Most tragic!" "The cruel part of it was," Dominey went on, standing before the window, his hands clasped behind his back, "that my wife from that moment developed a homicidal mania against me--I, who had fought in the most absolute self-defence.

That was what drove me out of the country, Mangan--not the fear of being arrested for having caused the death of Roger Unthank.

I'd have stood my trial for that at any moment.