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"Did your wife hear all this?"
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"No, thank goodness, she did not."
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"And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?"
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"Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid some terrible trap for her."
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"Well, it is a possible supposition."
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"You think so, too?"
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"l did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon this as likely?"
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"I do not think Flora would hurt a fly."
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"Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray what is your own theory as to what took place?"
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"Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one.
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