And the inferences pointed different ways.

That was the trouble.

He was not even sure that in this latest discovery, so annoyingly belated, he had reached the ultimate solution of the facts.

It was not that the theory of these two young people committing murder for love was too cynical for belief.

He had encountered more incredible things than that in his professional career.
Life was a cynical business, and youth could be brutal in pursuit of its aims, especially when the aim was passion, as it usually was.