As you have no doubt frequently observed, Watson, the impression usually goes through - a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage. A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she values most. . . A married woman grabs at her baby - an unmarried one reaches for her jewel box.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department. And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable . . . Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling-tongs. Women are never to be entirely trusted - not the best of them.