It is conjectured that it was in one of these that she committed
the terrible crime which has caused such a sensation in London.
Her movements upon the Monday night have not yet been traced,
but it is undoubted that a woman answering to her description
attracted much attention at Charing Cross Station on Tuesday
morning by the wildness of her appearance and the violence of
her gestures. It is probable, therefore, that the crime was
either committed when insane, or that its immediate effect was
to drive the unhappy woman out of her mind. At present she
is unable to give any coherent account of the past, and the
doctors hold out no hopes of the re-establishment of her reason.
There is evidence that a woman, who might have been Mme. Fournaye,
was seen for some hours on Monday night watching the house in
Godolphin Street."
"What do you think of that, Holmes?" I had read the account
aloud to him, while he finished his breakfast.
"My dear Watson," said he, as he rose from the table and paced
up and down the room, "you are most long-suffering, but if I
have told you nothing in the last three days it is because there
is nothing to tell.
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