I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentration during which he weighed every particle of evidence, constructed alternative theories, balanced one against the other, and made up his mind as to which points were essential and which immaterial.
Je savais que la solitude et la retraite étaient indispensables à mon ami pendant les heures d’intense concentration mentale où il pesait chaque parcelle de témoignage et de déposition, édifiait des théories contradictoires, les opposait les unes aux autres, isolait l’essentiel de l’accessoire.