It was known that she had passed from one fit of hysterics into another, and that the doctor was seriously alarmed about her state.

Rumors were about that the servants, having been interviewed at the back gate, said, that in the intervals of her screaming and wild laughter she over and over again accused Ned as the murderer of her husband.

Dr.Green, when questioned, peremptorily refused to give any information whatever as to his patient's opinions or words.
"The woman is well nigh a fool at the best of times," he said irritably, "and at present she knows no more what she is saying than a baby.

Her mind is thrown completely off any little balance that it had and she is to all intents and purposes a lunatic." Only with his friend Mr.Porson, who called upon him after the first visit had been paid to Mrs.Mulready immediately after her husband's body had been brought in, did Dr.Green discuss in any way what had happened.
"I agree with you, Porson, in doubting whether the poor boy had a hand in this terrible business.

We both know, of course, that owing to the bad training and total absence of control when he was a child in India his temper was, when he first came here, very hot and ungovernable.
His father often deplored the fact to me, blaming himself as being to a great extent responsible for it, through not having had time to watch and curb him when he was a child; but he was, as you say, an excellently disposed boy, and your testimony to the efforts which he has made to overcome his faults is valuable.