47357 'I cannot say anything definite, for I do not know anything definite.'
47358 'I would ask you one more question, Miss Stapleton.
47359 If you meant no more than this when you first spoke to me, why should you not wish your brother to overhear what you said?
47360 There is nothing to which he, or anyone else, could object.'
47361 'My brother is very anxious to have the Hall inhabited, for he thinks that it is for the good of the poor folk upon the moor.
47362 He would be very angry if he knew that I had said anything which might induce Sir Henry to go away.
47363 But I have done my duty now and I will say no more.
47364 I must get back, or he will miss me and suspect that I have seen you.
47365 Good-bye!'
47366 She turned, and had disappeared in a few minutes among the scattered boulders, while I, with my soul full of vague fears, pursued my way to Baskerville Hall.
47367 CHAPTER 8 : First Report of Dr Watson
47368 From this point onwards will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table.
47369 One page is missing, but otherwise they are exactly as written, and show my feelings and suspicions of the moment more accurately than my memory, clear as it is upon these tragic events, can possibly do.