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Alice clapped her hands. “It’s all settled then. Tomorrow, we all visit the Yellow House. The more witnesses, the better.”
Nick shook his head. Why was he shaking his head? He had a stubborn look on his face as well.
“I won’t visit the Yellow House. That’s not my method.”
“Maybe it won’t be as satisfying as beating him until he begs for mercy,” Alice said, “but it will have much larger and more lasting consequences. You will wield far more power working within the confines of the law.”
“The man needs to be completely shut down,” Dr. Forster agreed. “This evil can’t be allowed to continue unpunished and unabated.”
“I won’t go inside the asylum,” said Nick, his voice icy. “I can’t. Don’t ask me why. I just can’t.”
Why was he being so obstinate? If he visited the asylum in Bethnal Green, and wrote the report, he could help far more people than he did now. He could save hundreds of women like Jane.
She had to make him see that this would be even more effective than helping people one by one, under cover of darkness.
Bring the larger problem into the light. Illuminate its ugliness for all the world to see and abhor.
“Gentlemen,” Alice said. “Allow me to speak with my husband in private.”
