Not being ready with the needful reply, I produced ROBINSON CRUSOE, in which I am firmly persuaded some explanation might have been found, if we had only searched long enough for it.

Mr.Franklin shut up ROBINSON CRUSOE, and floundered into his German-English gibberish on the spot.

"Why not look into it ?" he said, as if I had personally objected to looking into it.

"Why the devil lose your patience, Betteredge, when patience is all that's wanted to arrive at the truth?
Don't interrupt me.

Rachel's conduct is perfectly intelligible, if you will only do her the common justice to take the Objective view first, and the Subjective view next, and the Objective-Subjective view to wind up with.