Which suggests--as does Wilkins's account generally--some secrecy as to the lady's visit to his chambers." "Do you know who the woman was ?" I asked.
"No, I don't know," he replied.

"I have a rather strong suspicion that I can identify her, but I am waiting for some further facts." "Is your suspicion founded on some new matter that you have discovered, or is it deducible from facts that are known to me ?" "I think," he replied, "that you know practically all that I know, although I have, in one instance, turned a very strong suspicion into a certainty by further inquiries.

But I think you ought to be able to form some idea as to who this lady probably was." "But no woman has been mentioned in the case at all." "No; but I think you should be able to give this lady a name, notwithstanding." "Should I?
Then I begin to suspect that I am not cut out for medico-legal practice, for I don't see the faintest glimmer of a suggestion." Thorndyke smiled benevolently.

"Don't be discouraged, Jervis," said he.
"I expect that when you first began to go round the wards, you doubted whether you were cut out for medical practice.

I did.