and also murders which depend in the main upon the victim ?" "The victim?
What do you mean ?" "Well, there are brutal men who commit murder out of sheer brutality--the ruffians of the slums; and there are sordid men who commit murder for sordid money--the insurers who want to forestall their policies, the poisoners who want to inherit property; but have you ever realised that there are also murderers who become so by accident, through their victims' idiosyncrasy?
I thought all the time while I was watching Mrs.Le Geyt, 'That woman is of the sort predestined to be murdered.'...

And when you asked me, I told you so.

I may have been imprudent; still, I saw it, and I said it." "But this is second sight!" I cried, drawing away.

"Do you pretend to prevision ?" "No, not second sight; nothing uncanny, nothing supernatural.

But prevision, yes; prevision based, not on omens or auguries, but on solid fact--on what I have seen and noticed." "Explain yourself, oh, prophetess!" She let the point of her parasol make a curved trail on the gravel, and followed its serpentine wavings with her eyes.