Lady Muriel was the speaker. And, for the moment, that was the only fact I could clearly realise. But how she came to be there——and how I came to be there——and how the glass of champagne came to be there——all these were questions which I felt it better to think out in silence, and not commit myself to any statement till I understood things a little more clearly.

'First accumulate a mass of Facts: and then construct a Theory.' That, I believe, is the true Scientific Method. I sat up, rubbed my eyes, and began to accumulate Facts.