Dr.West and a surgeon from a neighbouring town, who had jointly made the post-mortem examination, testified that there was a cause for Rachel Frost's unevenness of spirits, spoken to by her father and by Mrs.Verner.She might possibly, they now thought, have thrown herself into the pool; induced to it by self-condemnation.
It electrified Deerham.

It electrified Mr.Verner.It worse than electrified Matthew Frost and Robin.

In the first impulse of the news, Mr.Verner declared that it _could not be_.

But the medical men, with their impassive faces, calmly said that _it was_.
But, so far as the inquiry went, the medical testimony did not carry the matter any further.

For, if the evidence tended to induce a suspicion that Rachel might have found life a burden, and so wished to end it, it only rendered stronger the suspicion against another.