Mr.
Godfrey Ablewhite, won't find the world in general quite so easy to convince as a committee of charitable ladies.

Appearances are dead against him.

He was in the house when the Diamond was lost.

And he was the first person in the house to go to London afterwards.

Those are ugly circumstances, ma'am, viewed by the light of later events." I ought, I know, to have set him right before he went any farther.