He ignored Dr.
Ravenshaw's.
"There's another matter, doctor," he continued.

"One of the coast fishermen has a story that when Robert Turold was out on the moors he used to hasten home with great strides, like a man who feared pursuit.

Did you ever observe this peculiarity in him ?" "I have observed that he used to walk at a quick pace." "This was more than a quick pace--it was almost a run, according to the fisherman--looking backward over his shoulder as he went." "I did not notice that, but I should not be surprised if it were true, with a man of Robert Turold's temperament." "He feared pursuit--some unknown danger, then ?" "I cannot say.

He may have suffered from agoraphobia." "What is that ?" asked Barrant.
"The dread of open spaces." "I have heard of claustrophobia--the dread of closed spaces--but not of this." "It is common enough--an absurd but insurmountable aversion to open spaces.

The victims are oppressed by a terrible anxiety when crossing a field.