fresco. De verdad creo que me habría desmayado si no hubiera salido. Me quedé en la puerta unos minutos y ahora ya estoy completamente
“All the time that she was telling me this story she never once looked in my direction, and her voice was quite unlike her usual tones. It was evident to me that she was saying what was false.
I said nothing in reply, but turned my face to the wall, sick at heart, with my mind filled with a thousand venomous doubts and suspicions.
- What was it that my wife was concealing from me?
- Where had she been during that strange expedition?
I felt that I should have no peace until I knew, and yet I shrank from asking her again after once she had told me what was false. All the rest of the night I tossed and tumbled, framing theory after theory, each more unlikely than the last.
“I should have gone to the City that day, but I was too disturbed in my mind to be able to pay attention to business matters. My wife seemed to be as upset as myself, and I could see from the little questioning glances which she kept shooting at me that she understood that I disbelieved her statement, and that she was at her wits’ end what to do. We hardly exchanged a word during breakfast, and immediately afterwards I went out for a walk, that I might think the matter out in the fresh morning air.
—Fui hasta el Crystal Palace, pasé una hora en los jardines y a la una ya estaba de vuelta en Norbury. Dio la casualidad de que mi camino pasaba por delante de la casita, y me detuve un instante para mirar las ventanas y ver si alcanzaba a vislumbrar el extraño rostro que me había mirado el día anterior. Mientras estaba allí parado, imagínese mi sorpresa, mister Holmes, cuando de repente se abrió la puerta y mi mujer salió.