"Who else was there?
Miss Nowell knew so few gentlemen, and saw no one except the Rector's family and two or three ladies after the uncle's death." "Not at the cottage, perhaps.

But she may have seen some one out-of-doors.

You say she always went out alone at that time, and preferred to do so." "Yes, sir, that is true.

But it seemed natural enough that she should like to be alone on account of her grief." "There must have been some reason for her silence towards me, Sarah.

She could not have acted so cruelly without some powerful motive.