She can't possibly be, and no amount of evidence will make me think she is." "You've seen her twice," said Meldon; "once on Sunday afternoon when she had just been to church, and was in a chastened and gentle mood owing to the effect of my sermon on her, when the lethal side of her character was temporarily in abeyance.

You couldn't form much of an opinion about her real character at a time like that.

The other occasion on which you saw her was when she was sea-sick, and no woman is her true self when she's profoundly humiliated.

Yet, on the strength of these two interviews, you are apparently prepared to contradict the result of a careful induction of mine and the lady's own express statement.

I don't know how you manage to work yourself into a frame of mind in which that is possible." "As a matter of fact," said the Major, "I've seen her three times." "Twice." "No; three times.