How imperfectly acquainted were we with the condition and designs of the beings that surrounded us?
The city was near at hand, and thousands might there exist whose powers and purposes might easily explain whatever was mysterious in this transaction.

As to the closet dialogue, he was obliged to adopt one of two suppositions, and affirm either that it was fashioned in my own fancy, or that it actually took place between two persons in the closet.
Such was Carwin's mode of explaining these appearances.

It is such, perhaps, as would commend itself as most plausible to the most sagacious minds, but it was insufficient to impart conviction to us.

As to the treason that was meditated against me, it was doubtless just to conclude that it was either real or imaginary; but that it was real was attested by the mysterious warning in the summer-house, the secret of which I had hitherto locked up in my own breast.
A month passed away in this kind of intercourse.

As to Carwin, our ignorance was in no degree enlightened respecting his genuine character and views.