A suicide inspired by passion is the inevitable termination of a pathological condition.

Every individual who commits suicide had to commit suicide.

You are merely the incidental cause of an accident, which is, of course, deplorable, but the importance of which should not be exaggerated." Thinking that he had said enough on this score, he applied himself immediately to dispersing the terrors which surrounded her.

He sought to convince her by simple arguments that she was beholding images which had no reality, mere reflections of her own thoughts.

In order to illustrate his demonstration, he told her a story of a reassuring nature.
"An English physician," he told her, "was attending a lady, like yourself, highly intelligent, who, like yourself, was in the habit of seeing cats under her furniture, and was visited by phantoms.