He had real commiseration for his client and had provided himself with an antidote to the poison he had just so ruthlessly administered.
"Courage!" he cried.

"I only wished you to see that there were worse losses to consider than that of your wife's desertion, even if that desertion took the form of suicide.

There is a reason which you have forgotten for acquitting Mrs.Ransom of such criminal intentions and of accepting as your sister-in-law the woman who calls herself Anitra.
Recall Mrs.Ransom's will; the general terms of which I felt myself justified in confiding to you.

In it there are no provisions made for this Anitra.

Had Mrs.Ransom, for any inexplicable reason, planned an exchange of identities with her sorely afflicted sister, she would have been careful to have left that sister some portion of her great fortune.
But she did not remember her with a cent.