On our return home I asked him for further particulars, and he then gave me a very detailed description of the patient and the circumstances.

The upshot was rather startling.

I had looked on his case as merely illustrative, and wished to study it for the sake of the suggestions that it might offer.

But when I had heard his account, I began to suspect that there was something more than mere parallelism of method.
It began to look as if his patient, Mr.Graves, might actually be Jeffrey Blackmore.
"The coincidences were remarkable.

The general appearance of the patient tallied completely with Mr.Stephen's description of his uncle Jeffrey.
The patient had a tremulous iris in his right eye and had clearly suffered from dislocation of the crystalline lens.