"The doctor says in one of two ways.

Either Miss Roseberry must have spoken of you and of her own affairs while she and the stranger were together in the French cottage, or the stranger must have obtained access privately to Miss Roseberry's papers.

Do you agree so far ?" Lady Janet began to feel interested for the first time.
"Perfectly," she said.

"I have no doubt Grace rashly talked of matters which an older and wiser person would have kept to herself." "Very good.

Do you also agree that the last idea in the woman's mind when she was struck by the shell might have been (quite probably) the idea of Miss Roseberry's identity and Miss Roseberry's affairs?
You think it likely enough?
Well, what happens after that?
The wounded woman is brought to life by an operation, and she becomes delirious in the hospital at Mannheim.