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1"Was she in good spirits?" "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our future lives." "Indeed! That is
2very interesting. And on the morning of the wedding?" "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the
3ceremony." "And did you observe any change in her then?" "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had
4ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident however, was too trivial to relate and can have no
5possible bearing upon the case." "Pray let us have it, for all that." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we
6went towards the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it fell over into the pew. There was a moment's
7delay, but the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet
8when I spoke to her of the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our way home, she seemed absurdly
9agitated over this trifling cause." "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of the general public
10were present, then?" "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is open." "This gentleman was not one of
11your wife's friends?" "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a common-looking person. I hardly
12noticed his appearance. But really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Lady St. Simon, then,
13returned from the wedding in a less cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do on re-entering her
14father's house?" "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "And who is her maid?" "Alice is her name. She is an
15American and came from California with her." "A confidential servant?" "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her
16mistress allowed her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they look upon these things in a different
17way." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "You did not
18overhear what they said?" "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was accustomed to use slang of the
19kind. I have no idea what she meant." "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your wife do when she
20finished speaking to her maid?" "She walked into the breakfast-room." "On your arm?" "No, alone. She was very
21independent in little matters like that. Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose hurriedly, muttered
22some words of apology, and left the room. She never came back." "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she
23went to her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a bonnet, and went out." "Quite so. And she was
24afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who had already
25made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that morning." "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady,
26and your relations to her." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "We have been on a friendly
27footing for some years--I may say on a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have not treated her
28ungenerously, and she had no just cause of complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. Flora was a
29dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she heard
30that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that
31I feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she
32endeavoured to push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my wife, and even threatening her, but I had
33foreseen the possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police fellows there in private clothes, who soon
34pushed her out again. She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a row." "Did your wife hear all this?"
35"No, thank goodness, she did not." "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "Yes. That is what Mr.
36Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid some
37terrible trap for her." "Well, it is a possible supposition." "You think so, too?" "I did not say a probable one. But
38you do not yourself look upon this as likely?" "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "Still, jealousy is a strange
39transformer of characters. Pray what is your own theory as to what took place?" "Well, really, I came to seek a theory,
40not to propound one. I have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may say that it has occurred to me as
41possible that the excitement of this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a social stride, had the
42effect of causing some little nervous disturbance in my wife." "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "Well,
43really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to
44without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis,"
45said Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were
46seated at the breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "We could see the other side of the road and the
47Park." "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. I shall communicate with you." "Should you be
48fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our client, rising. "I have solved it." "Eh? What was that?" "I say that I
49have solved it." "Where, then, is my wife?" "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." Lord St. Simon shook his
50head. "I am afraid that it will take wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a stately,
51old-fashioned manner he departed. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his
52own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all this
53cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the case before our client came into the room." "My dear Holmes!"
54"I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole
55examination served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as
56when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "But I have heard all that you have heard." "Without,
57however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some
58years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of
59these cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard,
60and there are cigars in the box." The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, which gave him a
61decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated himself
62and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You look
63dissatisfied." "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage case. I can make neither head nor tail
64of the business." "Really! You surprise me." "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip through my
65fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his hand
66upon the arm of the pea-jacket. "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "In Heaven's name, what for?" "In search of
67the body of Lady St. Simon." Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Have you dragged the basin
68of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he asked. "Why? What do you mean?" "Because you have just as good a chance of finding
69this lady in the one as in the other." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you know all about it,"
70he snarled.
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