CHAPTER Twenty one.
Naturally a perceptive and closely reasoning woman, Mrs.Warren's close intellectual intimacy with her husband had, in giving her the benefit of intercourse with a wide experience, added greatly to her power of reasoning by deduction.

Warren frequently felt that his talk with her was something like consultation with a specially clever and sympathetic professional confrere.

Her suggestions or conclusions were invariably worth consideration.

More than once his reflection upon them had led him to excellent results.

She made one night a suggestion with regard to the Extraordinary Case which struck him as being more than usually astute.
"Is she an intellectual woman ?" she inquired.
"Not in the least.