She thought it high time to bring the examination to an end.
"If you are determined to believe in the woman's innocence," she said, "without knowing any of the circumstances--" Mr.Mool went on from bad to worse: he interrupted her now.
"Excuse me, Mrs.Gallilee, I think you have forgotten that one of my autumn holidays, many years since, was spent in Italy.

I was in Rome, like Doctor Benjulia, after your brother's marriage.

His wife was, to my certain knowledge, received in society.

Her reputation was unblemished; and her husband was devoted to her." "In plain English," said Mrs.Gallilee, "my brother was a poor weak creature--and his wife, when you knew her, had not been found out." "That is just the difficulty I feel," Mr.Mool rejoined.

"How is it that she is only found out now?
Years have passed since she died.