"No; I never paid any attention to him, nor ever took any particular notice of any thing about him. He always seemed a quiet and inoffensive kind of a man."
"What do you think of him now?"
"I can scarcely say what. He is a villain, of course; but why, or what he could gain by it, is a mystery."
"Do you remember any thing that you can now recall which in any way looks like villainy?"
"No, not one thing; and that is the trouble with me."
"Did he ever have any quarrel of any kind with any of you?"
"Never."
"Was any thing ever done which he could have taken as an insult or an injury?"
"He was never treated in any other way than with the most scrupulous politeness. My father, my sister, and myself were all incapable of treating him in any other way."
"What was your sister's usual manner toward him?"