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  • I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

    Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.885, Wordsworth Editions