“I wouldn’t say that. That’s for the Day of Judgment. When is cruelty madness? I don’t know. Why did she--give herself away--in the end? Perhaps she found she had gone a little too far. Perhaps she knew you and I had begun to look after her. She never liked me much, I fancy. She was a little--odd--with me.” “You’re an uncanny fellow, Fortune.” “My dear chap! Oh, my dear chap! I’m wholly normal. I’m the natural man,” said Reggie Fortune. Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Mr. Fortune's Practice, by H. C. Bailey