There
is complete confidence between my husband and me on all matters
save one. That one is politics. On this his lips are sealed.
He tells me nothing. Now, I am aware that there was a most
deplorable occurrence in our house last night. I know that a
paper has disappeared. But because the matter is political my
husband refuses to take me into his complete confidence. Now it
is essential -- essential, I say -- that I should thoroughly
understand it. You are the only other person, save only these
politicians, who knows the true facts. I beg you, then,
Mr. Holmes, to tell me exactly what has happened and what it
will lead to. Tell me all, Mr. Holmes. Let no regard for your
client's interests keep you silent, for I assure you that his
interests, if he would only see it, would be best served by
taking me into his complete confidence. What was this paper
which was stolen?"
"Madam, what you ask me is really impossible."
She groaned and sank her face in her hands.
"You must see that this is so, madam. If your husband thinks
fit to keep you in the dark over this matter, is it for me, who
has only learned the true facts under the pledge of professional
secrecy, to tell what he has withheld? It is not fair to ask it.
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