She had been up all night, making something or destroying something, in private.

And she had been at the Shivering Sand, that evening, under circumstances which were highly suspicious, to say the least of them.

For all these reasons (sorry as I was for Rosanna) I could not but think that Mr.Franklin's way of looking at the matter was neither unnatural nor unreasonable, in Mr.Franklin's position.

I said a word to him to that effect.
"Yes, yes!" he said in return.

"But there is just a chance--a very poor one, certainly--that Rosanna's conduct may admit of some explanation which we don't see at present.