Why should he do it now?
But again, if the girl has breeding to some extent, he might think it her due that she should pass under the safeguard of his name, out of sight.
Then, so far the report is trustworthy.

We blow the rumour out of belief.

A young woman there is: she is not a wife.

Lady Charlotte allowed her the fairly respectable post of Hecate of the Shades, as long as the girl was no pretender to the place and name in the upper sphere.
Her deductions were plausible, convincing to friends shaken by her vehement manner of coming at them.

She convinced herself by means of her multitude of reasons for not pursuing inquiry.