"Madam," said Sherlock Holmes "my work is its own reward; but you can repay any money I spend to solve the case, at the time which is best for you. But now I ask that you tell us everything that will help us to know about the case".

"Oh dear!" replied our visitor, "the horror of my situation is I am not sure what I am afraid of, I worry about such small things, that might not seem important to someone else. Even the person who, of all others, I should be able to ask for help and advice thinks that everything I tell him are the worries of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can see it from his behaviour. Mr Holmes you must tell me what to do in this dangerous situation."

"I will do everything I can," said Holmes.

The young lady seemed to have recovered from her distress a bit, and now, after taking a deep breath, she began to explain what had brought her to us that morning.