This appearance is quite understandable if we suppose that the trousers were worn under a skirt and were turned up so that they should not be accidentally seen.

Otherwise it is quite incomprehensible." "Is it not rather strange," said Marchmont, "that Jeffrey should have allowed himself to be dressed up in this remarkable manner ?" "I think not," replied Thorndyke.

"There is no reason to suppose that he knew how he was dressed.

You have heard Jervis's description of his condition; that of a mere automaton.

You know that without his spectacles he was practically blind, and that he could not have worn them since we found them at the house in Kennington Lane.