When he reached these conclusions, he decided that in his own case there could not be such a morbid reaction, that his reason and will would remain unimpaired at the time of carrying out his design, for the simple reason that his design was “not a crime.⁠ ⁠…” We will omit all the process by means of which he arrived at this last conclusion; we have run too far ahead already.⁠ ⁠… We may add only that the practical, purely material difficulties of the affair occupied a secondary position in his mind. “One has but to keep all one’s willpower and reason to deal with them, and they will all be overcome at the time when once one has familiarised oneself with the minutest details of the business.⁠ ⁠…” But this preparation had never been begun. His final decisions were what he came to trust least, and when the hour struck, it all came to pass quite differently, as it were accidentally and unexpectedly.