"Still," he answered, "I am not yet quite satisfied. The guilt of the
Count de Tremorel is of course abundantly clear to me. But what motives
urged him? How was he led to this terrible impulse to kill his wife, and
make it appear that he, too, had been murdered?"
"Might we not conclude," remarked the doctor, "that, disgusted with
Madame de Tremorel, he has got rid of her to rejoin another woman,
adored by him to madness?"