"I have every sympathy with you, madam, and should strongly urge you to have some confidence in the common sense of our jurisdiction and to take the police voluntarily into your complete confidence.

It may be that I am myself at fault for not following up the hint which you conveyed to me through my friend, Dr.Watson; but, at that time I had every reason to believe that you were directly concerned in the crime.
Now I am assured that this is not so.

At the same time, there is much that is unexplained, and I should strongly recommend that you ask Mr.
Douglas to tell us his own story." Mrs.Douglas gave a cry of astonishment at Holmes's words.

The detectives and I must have echoed it, when we were aware of a man who seemed to have emerged from the wall, who advanced now from the gloom of the corner in which he had appeared.

Mrs.Douglas turned, and in an instant her arms were round him.