A further comparison with other facts would be needed.
"So we proceed in cases like this present one.

Of the facts that are known to us we invent certain explanations.

From each of those explanations we deduce consequences; and if those consequences agree with new facts, they confirm the explanation, whereas if they disagree they tend to disprove it.

But here we are at our destination." We turned out of Wych Street into the arched passage leading into New Inn, and, halting at the half-door of the lodge, perceived a stout, purple-faced man crouching over the fire, coughing violently.

He held up his hand to intimate that he was fully occupied for the moment, and we accordingly waited for his paroxysm to subside.