I had no premonition of tragedy--any such tragedy as afterwards occurred.

I understood neither of my sisters and my thoughts were only for myself." "Didn't you so much as try to account for their both being there ?" "Not then." "Had you expected Adelaide to accompany your younger sister when you harnessed the horse for her ?" "No, sir." "Had not this younger sister even enjoined secrecy upon you in asking you to harness the horse ?" "Yes, sir." "Yet you heard the two together in this remote building without surprise ?" "No, I must have felt surprise, but I didn't stop to analyse my feelings.
Afterward, I turned it over in my mind and tried to make something out of the whole thing.

But that was when I was far out on the links." A losing game thus far.

This the district attorney seemed to feel; but he was not an ungenerous man though cursed (perhaps, I should say blessed, considering the position he held) by a tenacity which never let him lose his hold until the jury gave their verdict.
"You have a right to explain yourself fully," said he, after a momentary struggle in which his generosity triumphed over his pride.

"When you did think of your sisters, what explanation did you give yourself of the facts we have just been considering ?" "I could not imagine the truth, so I just satisfied myself that Adelaide had discovered Carmel's intentions to ride into town and had insisted on accompanying her.