There are two sides to everything.

Audi alteram partem.

The legal gentleman has no opinion,--he only states the evidence .-- A doubtful case.

Let the young lady be under the protection of the Honorable Decemvir until it can be looked up thoroughly .-- Father thinks it best, on the whole, to give in.
Will explain the matter, if the young lady and her maid will step this way.

That is the explanation,--a stab with a butcher's knife, snatched from a stall, meant for other lambs than this poor bleeding Virginia.
The old man thought over the story.