"Do you know whether your husband had anything worrying him--any serious trouble of any kind which would make him likely to commit suicide ?" "Suicide?
Egbert ?" cried Olivia, in a tone of such astonishment that, as far as Mr.Flexen was concerned, the hypothesis of suicide received its death-blow.

"No.

I don't know of anything which would have made him commit suicide." "Of course he had no money troubles; but were there any domestic troubles which might have unhinged his mind to that extent ?" said Mr.Flexen.
He wished to be able to deal with the hypothesis of suicide, should it be put forward.
Olivia did not answer immediately.

She was thinking hard.

The possibility that her husband had committed suicide, or that any one could suppose that he had committed suicide, had never entered her head.