Without abandoning a jot her suspicions she realized she was powerless to prove her case at this time.

With a few bitter and cutting remarks--made, she afterward said, in "self-defense"-- she retreated as gracefully as possible and drove home.
An hour later she suggested to Uncle John that he have a detective placed where Diana's movements could be watched; but that had already been attended to by both Mr.Merrick and Mr.Fogerty.Uncle John could hardly credit Diana's complicity in this affair.

The young lady's social position was so high, her family so eminently respectable, her motive in harming Louise so inconceivable, that he hesitated to believe her guilty, even indirectly.

As for her cousin, he did not know what to think, as Arthur accused him unreservedly.

It did not seem possible that any man of birth, breeding and social position could be so contemptible as to perpetrate an act of this character.