"What are you abusing me for?" I complained. "I did no more than what I was engaged to do."
"She was distracted!" said Sadie. "She couldn't think for herself. She depended on you."
"Well, I did the best I could for her," I said doggedly. "You seem to think that I enjoyed doing it. There is a perfect case against him."
"There is not!" she said quickly. "Your own evidence that you set such a store by is full of holes!"
I invited her to point them out.
"One of your points against him is that he lately came into possession of a lot of money, presumably the proceeds of the theft. Yet you found the pearls on him, too. One fact contradicts the other."
"How do I know what other activities he's been engaged in?"
"You do not believe that."
"I beg your pardon," I said stiffly. "Permit me to know my own beliefs."
"If it wasn't true it wouldn't anger you."