"
"Me?"
"Yes, you. She mentioned you by name, and asked particularly whether
you'd be likely to be shocked, when you found out who she was. Now, if
she had simply been slipping trifling articles off shop counters into
her muff, she wouldn't have expected you to be shocked. That's what
makes me say her crime was a serious one."
"Still," said the Major, "even supposing she really was afraid of
shocking me; though I can't see how she came to consider me at all--"
"She did. You may take that for certain."
"There are other things besides murder that I should strongly
disapprove of."
"You're thinking of divorce court proceedings now. But she's not that
sort of woman at all. I had every opportunity of studying her
character in the train, and I'm certain that she wouldn't mix herself
up with anything of a disreputable kind. Whatever poor Lorimer may
have had to complain of--and I don't in the least deny that he had a
grievance--he'd have been the last man to accuse her of anything of
_that_ sort. I never met a woman who impressed me more strongly as
being thoroughly respectable."
"Come now, J. J. Murder! Surely murder--"
"Not when treated as an art.
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