I, too, must say that in the first period of our friendship, I never noticed anything that could give colour even to suspicion of him; but the belief in his abnormal tastes was widespread and dated from his life in Oxford.
From about 1886-7 on, however, there was a notable change in Oscar Wilde's manners and mode of life.

He had been married a couple of years, two children had been born to him; yet instead of settling down he appeared suddenly to have become wilder.

In 1887 he accepted the editorship of a lady's paper, _The Woman's World_, and was always mocking at the selection of himself as the "fittest" for such a post: he had grown noticeably bolder.

I told myself that an assured income and position give confidence; but at bottom a doubt began to form in me.

It can't be denied that from 1887-8 on, incidents occurred from time to time which kept the suspicion of him alive, and indeed pointed and strengthened it.