"It cannot be true.

We might easily have guessed this, if we ever dreamed of impossibilities." "In such cases, when appearances lean in one direction, set principles in the opposite balance," added Cornelia.

"What Adela apprehends may seem to impend, but we know that papa is incapable of doing it.

To know that, shuts the gates of suspicion.

She has allowed herself to be troubled by a ghastly nightmare." Adela believed in her own judgement too completely not to be sure that her sisters were, perhaps unknowingly, disguising a slowness of perception they were ashamed of, by thus partially accusing her of giddiness.