The woman, Nina Carrington, was the cog that slipped.
With Nina Carrington, five lives were sacrificed in the course of this grim conspiracy.
Victor Carrington's mother retired into a convent, and was probably as happy as she had ever been.
Near noon on that day two intensely brilliant points suddenly broke out in a group of sun-spots which were under observation by Mr R. C. Carrington at his observatory at Redhill, England.