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Wilkinson came very near to allowing himself to be surprised. For business reasons he did not usually encourage that emotion, but this particular case bristled with all sorts of unexpected happenings and dramatic situations. He already knew--she had told him--that he was face to face with Lady Goshe, but why she was so interested in the patient, and why she should insist upon John Lethbridge seeing a copy of an evening paper, suggested fresh trains of thought.
Another thing, too, was not lost upon the detective. He would have been blind had he failed to see the remarkable likeness between the woman he was addressing and Mary Grover. In the course of his long and varied experience Wilkinson had come across many of such coincidences, but he could not recall a single professional incident which held and fascinated him as this one did.