Yet all to no purpose.

Some fatality has seemed to rule, ever since he came to the house, that this disastrous inversion of things should arise.

If I had only foreseen the possibility of it before he arrived, how gladly would I have departed on some visit or other to the meanest friend to hinder such an apparent treachery.

But I blindly welcomed him--indeed, made myself particularly agreeable to him for her sake.
There is no possibility of my suspicions being wrong; not until they have reached absolute certainty have I dared even to admit the truth to myself.

His conduct to-day would have proved them true had I entertained no previous apprehensions.