I believe what she says here; she has _not_ gone with him.' Wilfrid laughed scornfully.
'It is too late; I can't twist my belief so quickly.

I do not need that kind of comfort; far easier to make up my mind that I have always been fooled--as I have!' He was beyond the stage at which reasoning is possible; reaction, in full flood, beat down the nobler features of his mind and swamped him with the raging waters of resentment.
So here was a myth well on its way to establishment.

For no one could afford Mrs.Baxendale satisfactory news of Dagworthy.

She would not take the only step which remained, that of openly avowing to his partner the information she desired to obtain, and getting him to make inquiries his partner appeared to be the only person in direct communication with Dagworthy.

It had to be remembered that Emily's own statement might be true; she must not be spoken of lightly.