She was delighted, I know, and told me she would do some shopping, and pay a few calls in the afternoon.' "'Do you know at all where she intended to go when she got into the Underground Railway ?' "'Well, not with certainty.

You see, she may have meant to get out at Baker Street, and go down to Bond Street to do her shopping.

Then, again, she sometimes goes to a shop in St.Paul's Churchyard, in which case she would take a ticket to Aldersgate Street; but I cannot say.' "'Now, Mr.Hazeldene,' said the coroner at last very kindly, 'will you try to tell me if there was anything in Mrs.Hazeldene's life which you know of, and which might in some measure explain the cause of the distressed state of mind, which you yourself had noticed?
Did there exist any financial difficulty which might have preyed upon Mrs.
Hazeldene's mind; was there any friend--to whose intercourse with Mrs.
Hazeldene--you--er--at any time took exception?
In fact,' added the coroner, as if thankful that he had got over an unpleasant moment, 'can you give me the slightest indication which would tend to confirm the suspicion that the unfortunate lady, in a moment of mental anxiety or derangement, may have wished to take her own life ?' "There was silence in the court for a few moments.

Mr.Hazeldene seemed to every one there present to be labouring under some terrible moral doubt.

He looked very pale and wretched, and twice attempted to speak before he at last said in scarcely audible tones: "'No; there were no financial difficulties of any sort.