I was very pleased indeed at this news, and only one thing that happened at this time worried me. A woman was killed in Whitechapel, and people began to talk again about Jack the Ripper. I carefully checked where Holmes had been on the night of the murder, and found that he had spent the evening with two famous foreign detectives. I even spoke to them both secretly, and so I was sure that Holmes had not been in Whitechapel that night.