I had a feeling that a man was trying to do wrong, but I hoped that I was mistaken.

It seemed to me that circumstances compelled me to tell the convention all about it, but I was very careful not to hint at my suspicion.

Yet the moment I told them they laughed." "Why ?" "Because they felt sure that the man had done wrong." "Oh!" It was a small exclamation, but the expression Miss De Voe put into it gave it a big meaning.

"Then they were laughing at Maguire ?" "At the time they were.

Really, though, they were laughing at human weakness.