And there, as I thought, the matter might have been judiciously left to come to an end.
Sergeant Cuff, however, took it a step further, evidently (as you shall now judge) with the purpose of forcing the most painful of all possible explanations to take place between her ladyship and himself.
"I have heard a motive assigned for the young woman's suicide," said the Sergeant, "which may possibly be the right one.

It is a motive quite unconnected with the case which I am conducting here.

I am bound to add, however, that my own opinion points the other way.

Some unbearable anxiety in connexion with the missing Diamond, has, I believe, driven the poor creature to her own destruction.

I don't pretend to know what that unbearable anxiety may have been.