“If
there is moral insanity,” he said in a conspiratorial whisper, “then there may
be the reverse, a moral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like
a fever. In thrall to this moral sanity,
Sheward may have been compelled to come clean.
It was, after all, the first of the year – a time for resolutions and
whatnot. Later, when the fever passed,
he tried to recant, but by then it was too late.”
“You look a mite feverish yourself.
Do you really believe that?” Holmes asked, smiling.
“Of course not, it’s perfectly daft.”
(from Mycroft
Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna
Waterohuse )
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